To help you prepare for chess tournament, here’s a chess practice plan – 2

Chess Puzzle Practice Plan

1. Phases of the Game

• Opening: https://lichess.org/training/opening
• Middlegame: https://lichess.org/training/middlegame
• Endgame: https://lichess.org/training/endgame

2. Endgame Types

• Rook Endgame: https://lichess.org/training/rookEndgame
• Bishop Endgame: https://lichess.org/training/bishopEndgame
• Pawn Endgame: https://lichess.org/training/pawnEndgame
• Knight Endgame: https://lichess.org/training/knightEndgame
• Queen Endgame: https://lichess.org/training/queenEndgame
• Queen and Rook: https://lichess.org/training/QueenAndRook

3. Tactical Motifs

• Advanced Pawn: https://lichess.org/training/advancedPawn
• Attacking f2 or f7: https://lichess.org/training/attackingF2F7
• Capture the Defender: https://lichess.org/training/capturingDefender
• Discovered Attack: https://lichess.org/training/discoveredAttack
• Double Check: https://lichess.org/training/doubleCheck
• Exposed King: https://lichess.org/training/exposedKing
• Fork: https://lichess.org/training/fork
• Hanging Piece: https://lichess.org/training/hangingPiece
• Kingside Attack: https://lichess.org/training/kingsideAttack
• Pin: https://lichess.org/training/pin
• Queenside Attack: https://lichess.org/training/queensideAttack
• Sacrifice: https://lichess.org/training/sacrifice
• Skewer: https://lichess.org/training/skewer
• Trapped Piece: https://lichess.org/training/trappedPiece

4. Advanced Tactical Concepts

• Attraction: https://lichess.org/training/attraction
• Clearance: https://lichess.org/training/clearance
• Defensive Move: https://lichess.org/training/defensiveMove
• Deflection: https://lichess.org/training/deflection
• Interference: https://lichess.org/training/interference
• Intermezzo (Zwischenzug): https://lichess.org/training/intermezzo
• Quiet Move: https://lichess.org/training/quietMove
• X-Ray Attack: https://lichess.org/training/xRayAttack
• Zugzwang: https://lichess.org/training/zugzwang

5. Mating Patterns

• Checkmate: https://lichess.org/training/checkmate
• Mate in 1: https://lichess.org/training/mateIn1
• Mate in 2: https://lichess.org/training/mateIn2
• Mate in 3: https://lichess.org/training/mateIn3
• Mate in 4: https://lichess.org/training/mateIn4
• Mate in 5 or more: https://lichess.org/training/mateIn5
• Anastasia’s Mate: https://lichess.org/training/anastasiasMate
• Arabian Mate: https://lichess.org/training/arabianMate
• Back Rank Mate: https://lichess.org/training/backRankMate
• Boden’s Mate: https://lichess.org/training/bodensMate
• Double Bishop Mate: https://lichess.org/training/doubleBishopMate
• Dovetail Mate: https://lichess.org/training/dovetailMate
• Hook Mate: https://lichess.org/training/hookMate
• Kill Box Mate: https://lichess.org/training/killBoxMate
• Vukovic Mate: https://lichess.org/training/vukovicMate
• Smothered Mate: https://lichess.org/training/smotheredMate

6. Special Moves & Concepts

• Castling: https://lichess.org/training/castling
• En Passant: https://lichess.org/training/enPassant
• Promotion: https://lichess.org/training/promotion
• Underpromotion: https://lichess.org/training/underpromotion

7. Strategic Goals

• Equality: https://lichess.org/training/equality
• Advantage: https://lichess.org/training/advantage
• Crushing: https://lichess.org/training/crushing

8. Puzzle Lengths

• One-move puzzle: https://lichess.org/training/oneMove
• Short puzzle: https://lichess.org/training/short
• Long puzzle: https://lichess.org/training/long
• Very long puzzle: https://lichess.org/training/veryLong

9. Puzzle Origin

• Master Games: https://lichess.org/training/masterGames
• Master vs Master games: https://lichess.org/training/masterVsMasterGames
• Super GM Games: https://lichess.org/training/superGmGames