Top ChessPuzzler Puzzles
June 2025
June was a transformative month for Chess Puzzler, with over 9 million real game puzzles added, and a top puzzlers leaderboard drawing some serious competition. Who won the Puzzle Leagues this month? Who was our top puzzler? And importantly, who won the elusive Puzzle Master trophy? 🏆 Find out in this article! 😉
Puzzle Forge, Best Puzzle Winner - Jayakumar
In a flash of brilliance, not just one but two of Jayakumar's puzzles were equally voted puzzle of the month by our users! Can you solve them first try?
Puzzle Forge - JayakumarJayakumar Puzzle 1: White to play. Checkmate in 2 moves. Solve below.
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Jayakumar Puzzle 2: White to play. Checkmate in 4 moves. Solve below.
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Most Popular Daily Puzzle - Daily Puzzle: 21/06/2025
This daily puzzle, found by our genetic algorithm, involves a bold first move to checkmate the king in style...
Daily Puzzle: 21/06/2025White to play. Checkmate in 2 moves. Solve below.
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Most Challenging Puzzle League Puzzle
Crushing all competition, the king of consistency, Mkoslowski won all 4 weeks in June! 🥇 Can anyone rival this cool, calm, collected puzzle solving talent in July?
June Winners:
- Week 1 🥇 - mkoslowski
- Week 2 🥇 - mkoslowski
- Week 3 🥇 - mkoslowski
- Week 4 🥇 - mkoslowski
Our players made an average of 2.5 mistakes on this particularly tricky puzzle league puzzle. Can you solve it first try?
White to play. Checkmate in 4 moves. Solve below.
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Top Puzzler of the month
Completely blowing all competition out of the water, Qwert1qwert managed to solve a stunning total of 2072 puzzles this month. Considering we only switched tracking on midway through, this is seriously impressive!
Congratulations to our top 3 puzzle solvers for June:
- 1st 🥇 - Qwert1qwert - 2072 Puzzles Solved
- 2nd 🥈 - Xaviertiffany - 998 Puzzles Solved
- 3rd 🥉 - PYGOD - 613 Puzzles Solved
So, that concludes the top Chess Puzzler puzzles of June! Thank you to everyone getting involved this month making puzzles and competing on our leaderboards.
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Join the Puzzle Leagues here: Puzzle Leagues