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Chess960 puzzles: Save the piece

The attacked piece can be saved — with profit.

Saving the piece: one of your pieces is attacked, and the job is not to lose it for nothing. There are several tools: retreat with tempo, defend it, block the attack, or create a bigger counter-threat. Before retreating automatically, look for a retreat that attacks something — you save the piece and gain time in one move. The typical mistake is panicking onto the first available square, where the piece gets trapped again.

128 puzzles

Fork: queen to e1 (e4)
Shuffle Rating 995 · Fork
Win the hanging king on a7
Shuffle Rating 1126 · Hanging piece
Rescue the rook to c8
Shuffle Rating 1296 · Saving a piece
Fork: queen to d8 (d1)
Shuffle Rating 1307 · Fork
Rescue the knight to e5
Shuffle Rating 1433 · Saving a piece
Win the hanging king on g2
Shuffle Rating 1455 · Hanging piece
Win the hanging king on f3
Shuffle Rating 1475 · Hanging piece
Rescue the bishop to g4
Shuffle Rating 1509 · Saving a piece
Pin: knight to f6 (d5)
Shuffle Rating 1530 · Pin
Win the hanging king on d4
Shuffle Rating 1532 · Hanging piece
Rescue the pawn to b3
Shuffle Rating 1608 · Saving a piece
Rescue the king to b6
Shuffle Rating 1649 · Saving a piece
Rescue the bishop to f2
Shuffle Rating 1653 · Saving a piece
Rescue the queen to h6
Shuffle Rating 1715 · Saving a piece
Rescue the king to h6
Shuffle Rating 1727 · Saving a piece
Rescue the king to d1
Shuffle Rating 1758 · Saving a piece
Pin: king to h6
Shuffle Rating 1777 · Pin
Win the hanging rook on e8
Shuffle Rating 1784 · Hanging piece
Fork: queen to c7
Shuffle Rating 1813 · Fork
Pin: king to f7
Shuffle Rating 1815 · Pin
Win the hanging rook on f3
Shuffle Rating 1822 · Hanging piece
Rescue the rook to b2
Shuffle Rating 1824 · Saving a piece
Pin: king to f3
Shuffle Rating 1827 · Pin
Rescue the king to d7
Shuffle Rating 1836 · Saving a piece

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