Top ChessPuzzler Puzzles

April 2025

With some of the best Puzzle Forge submissions yet, fierce Puzzle League competition and record breaking numbers of users, April was a fantastic month for ChessPuzzler! In this article we detail some of the most popular and challenging chess puzzles from the past month. Can you solve them all?

Puzzle Forge, Best Puzzle Winner - Tchebarbaridade

Following an exciting vote from our users, Tchebarbaridade emerged as the ChessPuzzler Puzzle Master of April with his puzzle: Knightmares! After exploding on Reddit, this puzzle has been solved over 100 times already! Thank you to everyone who got involved and voted. New submissions to the Puzzle Forge will be counted towards next month's competition until May the 25th.

Puzzle Forge - Tchebarbaridade

Tchebarbaridade's winning puzzle is great fun, with a playful hint in the name 😉. Solve below.

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Most Popular Daily Puzzle - Daily Puzzle 04/04/2025

This daily puzzle requires a counter-intuitive first move to force the checkmate.

Daily Puzzle - 04/04/2025

White to play. Checkmate in 2 moves. Solve below.

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Most Challenging Puzzle League Puzzle

The Puzzle Leagues were once again very competetive, with some tight finishes, just 1 point separating the top 2 spots in week 2.

April Winners:

Our players made an average of 11 mistakes on this particularly tricky puzzle league puzzle. Can you solve it first try?

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So, that rounds up our top puzzles of April! Thank you to everyone getting involved this month making puzzles and competing on our leaderboards.

Create your own puzzles for the Puzzle Forge here: Puzzle Forge - Create

Join the Puzzle Leagues here: Puzzle Leagues

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