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Try some Nice and Unusual Puzzles.

• Christmas Trees Problems! submit your own
• Find Mate in 1(!), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 moves.
• Find Mate in 12, 13, 18, 36, or in ... 127 moves!
• Pawn Promotion
• Famen's Cross
• The Steinitz Gambit
• Philidor's Legacy, and Herlin's Manouever.
• A tricky Mate in 2 moves!
• Place the Black king in a square so that ...
• The white King looks at the black Rooks and laughs!! Can you see why?
• White moves and ... does not checkmate the Black!
• Twin Problems! and an ... Octuplet Problem! 
• Can the Black prevent the Mate in 1 move?
• A 1000 Year Old Problem!
• Keep the Black Queen blocked and null the Game.
• White moves and wins and White moves and draws studies.
• The 'tempo' makes the difference!
• A King Chase problem! And if you liked it, here is another.
• Retrograde Analysis Problems: Where is Haroun Al Rashid?
• Reach the following position... problems. 
• Problems with extra restrictions. 
• Stalemates and Helpmates
• Classic Problems

Spectacular Openings/Miniatures Gallery.

Famous Games/Checkmates Gallery.

You can have a go at some problems that I have composed

Competition! Solve some, or All of the Problems below ...
... and Enter the Hall of Fame!

1. How many queens ...? (1 point)
2. Place the Black King, so that White mates in 1 move! (6 points)
3. Find mate in 2 moves. (2 points)
4. Find mate in 3 moves. (3 points)
5. Find mate in 4 moves. (4 points)
6. Find mate in 5 moves. (5 points)
7. White moves and wins. (5 points)
8. White moves and stalemates. (5 points)
9. What is the max number of Knights ... (1 point)
10. Who wins this position? (8 points)
11. Find mate in 6 moves. (8 points)
12. Promote a pawn! (4 points)
13. Damoclean Sword. (6 points)
14. Chase the Black King and mate in 6 Moves. (10 points)
15. A Knight Travels Around the Board ... (1 point)
16. Find Mate in 2 moves. (5 points)
17. Find Mate in 3 moves. (5 points)
18. Find Mate in 4 moves. (5 points)
19. Find Mate in 5 moves. (7 points)
20. Find Mate in 6 moves. (7 points)
21. Promote some of white pawns and Mate in 3! (7 points)
22. Upside-down! (10 points)
23. White moves and wins, nice and fast! (5 points)
24. Find Mate in 3 Moves (5 points)
25. Find Mate in 7 Moves (9 points)
26. What is the minimum number of Queens ... (1 point)
27. Find Mate in 4 moves. (5 points)
28. Who moved last? (12 points)
29. White moves and Stalemates (4 points)
30. White to move and Mate in 4 moves (9 points)
31. Pauli's Quadruplets (30 points max)
32. White to Move and Win Twins (14 points max)
33. Find Mate in 2 moves. (6 points)
34. Yet another Mate in 2 moves. (6 points)
35. White Mates in 3, or Black Mates in 2 moves. (9 points)
36. White Mates in 3, or Black Mates in 4 moves. (11 points)
37. Find Mate in 3 Moves (5 points)
38. Find Mate in 5 Moves (7 points)
39. White or Black Mates in 5 moves. (16 points)
40. Place both kings ... (10 points)
41. Help-Mate in 3 Moves (8 points)
42. Careful with promotion! (6 points)
43. Christmas Tree Problem! (17 points)

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Acknowledgements

These pages have been created some time in 1994, by Manolis Stratakis: stratakis@forthnet.gr