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Welcome to this LAST PUZZLE of the Puzzle Road! Alright, this is the last puzzle! I have been happy to share with you all these tactics, strategies, checkmates and pins, forks, material wins! I hope you enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed to post it for you! But the Puzzle Road will come back! I promise it you, it's not the end. Don't the next Puzzle Road will be something like 1,000,000 times better! How? Because we will work together on it! Suggest your puzzles, your ideas. Tell me the topic you want me to analyze, share your chess games in my server: https://discord.gg/uncmhknmYg (feel free to create an account if you don't have at the moment; it's free and easy!) 42/ A beautiful finish! (Topic: ending the game) Let's come to the puzzle! Coming from a bullet game, I'm pretty surprised that it had been possible for White to find the brilliant and winning move. But it's possible and White won by checkmate! How? Feel free to check the explanations about the puzzle in my blog: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-a-beautiful-finish-p42 Puzzle Road will come back in a few months! Have fun in solving puzzles!

Welcome back to Puzzle Road! I think now I should end the suspense and give you the two last puzzles of the puzzle road! Of course, I told you in the beginning I would post 42 puzzles, not 40 (!!) I hope you saw that they were missing 2 tactics!So, let’s continue and end with the pre-last puzzle. This incredibly beautiful extraordinary tactic is composed of 3 brilliant moves! Alright, coming from a blitz game, I’m surprised that Black did find the right moves to win and keep the advantage all over the game. 41/ Surprise! 3 Brilliants for the pre-last puzzle! (Topic: overloading) Overloading an opponent’s piece means that the piece has too much to do (like you would be busy to work or study) and cannot make correctly all the things we ask it to do. In this case, the queen needs to protect on one side the g2 square to avoid the checkmate, because the black queen, protected by the black bishop on b7 is attacking this g2-square where it would be checkmate for the white king and rapidly the end of the game in the case white does not correctly move the queen. On the other side, the white queen protects the c3-pawn, alone. Check in my blog the solution! https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-surprise-3-brilliants-for-the-pre-last-puzzle-p41 Thanks for reading! @Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! The puzzle I post today comes from my game against someone who was completely underrated! Rating: 700. Playing style: 1,800… The position was draw, until he played Rook h4?? And then, I could win it. It’s incredible how one move can change a complete game! The draw has been converted into a win after this blunder. Do you find the move to make your opponent regret Rook h4? 40/ Make him regret his move! (Topic: pin) Check the solution if you need it: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-make-him-regret-his-move-p40 Have fun in playing chess!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! We’re coming near to the end of Puzzle Road friends, sorry… but we still have a few more puzzles to solve! Let’s go with the 39th! Don’t hesitate to send me your feedbacks in the forums, my blog, or send me a private message! The puzzle of today will handle with a discovered attack and a fork! Yes, I maybe told you too many things about the puzzle and it’s an easy puzzle… but it’s again an important tactic useful to players of every level! Some GM games ends with easy tactics! 39/ Discover the way to win! (Topic: discovered attack) Check the solution here: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-discover-the-way-to-win-p39 Have fun in playing chess! @Kyu13

Hello friends!Today, the puzzle won’t be easy! Alright, you will have to find many moves to correctly solve it and you will probably need to take your time to find the right and best and brilliant strategies! I added as topic “chasing the king” but I could have called that Magnet too. Magnet means to force a piece of the opponent to come on a bad square, and then to force him moving on the squares we want by checking the king. Like a magnet! 38/ Let’s start the chase! (Topic: chasing the king) Check the solution in the blog: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-lets-start-the-chase-p38 See you tomorrow for the next puzzle!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! I ‘m sincerely sorry if you find the explanations of the puzzles a bit too small… I am actually very busy with many things. Discord server, chess club, training, and more… But I’m still here to share great puzzles with you! This puzzle now is strange. Why? Because you need (again) to draw instead of finding a tactic to win material or to checkmate the white king! You will probably need a few minutes to find the right first move. Then, the next moves are much easier! 37/ I won’t let you win! (Topic: draw) Solution: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-i-wont-let-you-win-p37 Have a good day,@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Today’s puzzle is easier than the previous puzzles, but still needed for a tactic training, because you will always need to checkmate your opponent if this one does not give up! Easy, but necessary. Why I call it easy? Because the moves are completely logical to win the games. You will still need thinking a bit about the puzzle, but it’s easy. 36/ Easy, but necessary. (Topic: mate in 4) Check the solution in my blog: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-easy-but-necessary-p36 Have fun in solving this puzzle!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Here we have a puzzle where we could first think that White is losing because of the pin on the e-column. But we can play a brilliant great excellent beautiful move to win the game! Indeed, the black king is less protected, we have the bishop pair attacking the opponent’s king and our queen controls a few squares. This is a magnific example to show that tactics are everywhere (in lost positions too!) The queen is pinned, true, the king has not castled, true, but we win because of the activity of our pieces and the f-column that’s open. 35/ Did you think I gave my Queen? (Topic: out of the pin) Find the solution there: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-did-you-think-i-gave-my-queen-p35 Have fun in playing chess!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Today is he day, when you will have to take an important decision for the puzzle, instead of just trying to find a move. In chess, you will always find many possible moves, and sometimes you can think one is better than the other. Obviously, it’s your decision and everyone has a different opinion. Moreover, a parameter in your choice can be the time control: instead of making a draw in a position where your opponent has an advantage but less time, you could possibly choose to continue the game and try making your opponent fall because of time. It the following position, I made a choice (I won’t say it you to not influence you) and I don’t regret it. Indeed, my first possibility was to try pushing the pawns and try making a Queen before my opponent. My second possibility was to protect the a-pawn and to try resisting to the push on the queen side. And my first and last possibility was a draw, because of the repetition I could make. 34/ Which decision did you take? (Topic: important decisions in chess) All the posibilities/variants and explanations, you can find them there: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-which-decision-did-you-take-p34 Have a good thinking time!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! We’re back to the endgames puzzles! Alright, today we will analyze one of the endgames I played today against a friend (this friend will recognize himself) and saw the right move, but still played a blunder… I seriously don’t know why I did not play that, what I calculated! The move here does not allow Black to stalemate in this position. Moreover, maybe we can force our opponent to play nonsense moves? Let’s see how and why! But first, you will have to try yourself solving this puzzle. Else, it would not be called Puzzle Road! 33/ Avoiding the stalemate! (topic: stalemate, checkmate, and pawn promotion + tempos) You need help? No problem! Check the solution there: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-avoiding-the-stalemate-p33 Have an excellent day full of endgames!Good luck!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Let’s change a bit and try to solve a checkmate puzzle! Instead of a position from an endgame, with only a few pieces or a position where you will need to draw, today, White can force Black being checkmated. On the way to find the checkmate, you will have many problems and temptations for example winning material. But the variant that we search is not a material win. It’s a great checkmate in 3 moves! Check. Check. Checkmate. 32/ The way to checkmate. (Topic: forced checkmate) Check the solution in this blog if you did not find how to checkmate: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-the-way-to-checkmate-p32 Have a great day, @Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Today we will have a special case of a completely won position to a draw position! In the blog, I will first show you the big blunder, that allowed White the Draw, and then we will see how to draw the game with White! This is not the first puzzle of the puzzle road, where you must draw the game in a normally lost position. But it’s always interesting to see the different possibilities to cancel a lost game! In this puzzle, I cannot say you which case of draw we have (else, it would be too easy), but I think most of you can already feel the right moves by watching the position! 31/ I didn’t lose! (Topic: draw) This is the position before White can draw: And now, this is the position of the puzzle, where White can draw with a piece less: Solution of the tactic: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-i-didnt-lose-p31 GG!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Have you ever player a move in a game, and seen a few second after having played it, that you could have played a better one, to win material? Or to checkmate? How many missed wins do you have in some of your games? I am sure you have the capacities to decrease this number of blunders: you only need a few days training! Today’s puzzle is great, because you first want to play a move, and then hesitate if it’s the best one! (probably) In this puzzle, most of you will directly play Ng3 without thinking about the move you could play else. But is this move really the best? Tell me In the comments your opinion! I’m certain that you won’t all be of the same opinion! 30/ Is the first move you find always the best? (Topic: top secret) Is Ng3 a good move? Answer in this blog: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-is-the-first-move-you-find-always-the-best-p30 Have a good day!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Endgames. More endgames. Again, endgames. Always more endgames. Never enough endgames!Today’s puzzle is (again) an endgame. This puzzle comes from a position of my coach in a real OTB game in a tournament. Black wins. But how? Try to find the correct moves to promote the pawn without loosing the game! It’s not very difficult, but still strange, because in this case, White can (normally) not stop the pawn! The pawn is in this exercise stronger than the rook if Black play the right moves! 28/ The pawn is stronger than the rook! (Topic: 7th rank and pawn promotion) Solution is findable here: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-the-pawn-is-stronger-than-the-rook-p28 Continue your training, good luck for your future games and have fun in playing chess!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! One of the main ideas in the endgame is the opposition of the two kings. If you don’t know what it is, you will strictly never win an endgame if your opponent does not blunder. Opposition: when two kings are face-to-face with a certain quantity of squares between them. Diagonal opposition: same idea, but on a diagonal. Furthermore, the player who has a pawn less can use the opposition to draw the game. An easy example is King and pawn vs. King, because White can only win if the white king is over the white pawn and has taken the opposition to the black king. If Black takes the opposition, the game will certainly end with an extraordinary PAT! 27/ The opposition of two ideas! (Topic: opposition of two kings) Find the solution if needed: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-the-opposition-of-two-ideas-p27 Have a great day and good luck for your future endgames! @Kyu13

Welcome to puzzle road! A checkmate can sometimes take long and needs a few preparatory moves to be played. In this puzzle, Black cannot directly checkmate by just easily checking the king. Instead of that, you need to correctly develop a new piece and take control another time of a square that White cannot defend enough to survive to your checkmate attack! We often say that you need at least 3 pieces to make a correct checkmate. This puzzle is the perfect example for this. Indeed, the one rook took already possession of the h-column and the second can come to control the g-column if your bishop would not stand on f8.... And your bishop is inactive. You need to put him on a better square! 26/ Without any good moves! (Topic: preparatory moves) Solution: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-without-any-good-moves-p26 Have fun in playing chess!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! The half of your pieces on the board, from your color, are pawns. The pawns indeed are the most important pieces for a player in my opinion. In the opening, you need to push them and to control some important squares and the center. In the middlegame, you use them to win squares and next win material. In the endgame, the last step of the chess game, you push them as much as you can to reach the 8th rank and to promote them to Queens! In this puzzle, you will need to find a trick to promote them to Queens. How? Push or not push, this is the question! One of your pawns needs only 1 move to reach the 8th rank but would be captured by the opponent’s rook if you move it. If you move your rook away from the 7th rank, your opponent takes the pawn… Moreover, I did add a funny additional comment. It's hidden somewhere in this article: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-push-or-not-push-this-is-the-question-p25 25/ Push or not push, this is the question! (Topic: 7th rank, 8th rank and pawn promotion) Solution: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-push-or-not-push-this-is-the-question-p25 Have a great day!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Today, the partner clubs of The United Chess Nations played all in the multi-club arena and I analyzed some of the games, that have been played there. One of them is particularly interesting, and a great move has been played. I decided to show and explain you this move. Great is a great word. And this move is literally a great great move! Indeed, Black blundered and offers material to his opponent. How? You will first have to find it! The advantage collected by White has been all over the game and White successfully win! 24/ Offering free material? (Topic: double attack, material win) Solution of the puzzle: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-offering-free-material-p24 Have a good day,@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! The puzzle of today is a beautiful forced checkmate, that you need to play in only 4 moves. Black cannot do anything to stop our attack! (the mate could be in a few more moves if the opponent would play the moves proposed by the chess.com analyzing bot, but these moves are useless and cannot stop the mate!) You will have to find the best moves, without blundering. If you play one wrong move: nothing’s there anymore! Will you solve the puzzle? Let’s see if your answer was correct! 23/ The four fantastic moves! (topic: forced checkmate) Find here ther solution if needed: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-the-four-fantastic-moves-p23 Have a great day!Have fun in playing chess!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Today’s puzzle is a beautiful sacrifice to win material! You are surely a future (or maybe already actual) great chess player if you see this one in the first second you watch this puzzle! The position didn’t come in the game I played, because it was only a possible variant, and I blundered a bit the moves I played… (I still drew with a second brilliant move!) In this position, Black has 2 pawns more and played f6 (best move, recommended by Stockfish) The solution to win material is not easy to find and you will need to calculate all the possible variations, the possible moves that your opponent could play. My advice: start with the strangest one, to get in your head something like a schema of the position. 22/ Sacrifice like a Grandmaster! (Topic: sacrifice and X-Ray) Find the solution with this link: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-sacrifice-like-a-grandmaster-p22 Thanks for reading, I hope you liked today's puzzle! Have fun in playing chess,Your friend,@Kyu13