Daily chess puzzles

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Two kinds of daily chess games are listed here. The first is the classic tactics puzzle: one position a day where you have to find the winning line, with a streak to keep. The second bends chess into a different puzzle, such as guessing a whole opening move by move with colored feedback, or starting from a randomly dealt army so opening theory no longer helps.

The logic puzzles use the pieces' moves as rules: place six pieces so none attacks another, clear the board when every move must be a capture, or steer a piece that turns into whatever it takes. One builds a shifting rulebook against a bot as you play.

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Chess.com Daily Puzzle

chess.com · Math & Logic

Find the winning line in a single tactical position picked by Chess.com, where the puzzles are set to grow tougher as the week goes on.

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Chessigma Daily Chess Puzzle

chessigma.com · Math & Logic

Find the winning line in one chess position each day, building a streak on a monthly calendar, with a hint available when stuck.

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Chessle

jackli.gg · Math & Logic

Work out an entire chess opening, white and black moves alike, in six attempts with Wordle-style colors on each move; expert mode stretches it to five moves per side.

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Really Bad Chess

Puzzmo · puzzmo.com · Math & Logic

Pieces are handed out at random instead of the standard setup, so opening theory is useless as you hunt for a checkmate against the black king.

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Takes

takes.clevergoat.com · Math & Logic

Every move must capture, chess style, until a single piece is left on the board; if a king is there it has to be the survivor, across three puzzles a day.

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Echo Chess

echochess.com · Math & Logic

A chess puzzle where your piece turns into whatever it captures; plan a route that clears the board, in classic, epic, blitz or duel modes.

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Royal Family

coffeefirst.games · Math & Logic

Fit six chess pieces onto a 5x5 board split into colored zones, one per zone, so none attacks another; the pawn starts in place and time sets the score.

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Zaku Chess

zakuchess.com · Math & Logic

Lead your green-ringed pixel-art pieces to victory in a chess puzzle with a target turn count, with retry, undo and a full solution if you get stuck.

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Sporcle - Chess Attack

sporcle.com · Math & Logic

Work through a chess attack puzzle on a small board while a counter tracks your moves, aiming to complete it in as few as possible.

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Totally Normal Chess

totallynormalchess.com · Math & Logic

Play a 6x6 chess game against a bot while drafting new rules as you go, so the board's laws keep shifting, with the same chaos for everyone.

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Tile Knight

tileknight.com · Math & Logic

A logic grid that blends ideas from Star Battle, chess, nonograms and Sudoku, with a short tutorial before you tackle the day's board.

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