Chess960 puzzles: Promotion
The pawn reaches the last rank and becomes a queen — decisively.
Promotion turns a pawn on the last rank into a queen and rewrites the evaluation on the spot. In tactics the passer rarely walks in for free — usually a sacrifice clears its path. Count the tempi: how many moves does the pawn need, and can the defender stop it in time? And watch the promotion square itself — it must be out of enemy reach or won by force in your combination.
318 puzzles
Attack on the uncastled king: pawn to h8
Attack on the uncastled king: pawn to b8
Win the hanging king on c6
Winning blow: pawn to c7 (d6)
Winning blow: pawn to c7 (d6·2)
Winning blow: pawn to g7
Winning blow: queen to h2 (h7)
Winning blow: pawn to b7 (a6)
Winning blow: pawn to g7 (f6)
Winning blow: king to f3 (e2)
Winning blow: rook to g7 (g2)
Attack on the uncastled king: pawn to c3 (b2·22)
Attack on the uncastled king: pawn to b7 (a6·3)
Winning blow: pawn to f7
Winning blow: pawn to h5 (g4)
Winning blow: pawn to h7 (g6·2)
Winning blow: pawn to b7 (b6)
Attack on the uncastled king: bishop to d8 (a5·6)
Attack on the uncastled king: pawn to e4 (f3·31)
Winning blow: rook to e7 (e1·2)
Winning blow: pawn to d8 (d7)
Winning blow: knight to d6 (f5·5)
Winning blow: rook to d7 (d1·6)
Winning blow: pawn to g7 (g6)
Tactics
BatteryCheck chaseClearanceDecoyDeflectionDiscovered attackDiscovered checkDouble checkWinning exchangeBishop forkKnight forkPawn forkQueen forkRook forkRoyal forkHanging pieceInterferenceOverloadAbsolute pinRelative pinWin the pinned pieceQueen trapQuiet moveRemove the defenderSacrifice attackSkewerTrapped pieceUnderpromotionWinning blowX-rayZwischenzug