Top ChessPuzzler Puzzles
March 2025
March has been an exciting month for us at ChessPuzzler! The Puzzle Forge has seen more user created puzzles than ever before. The Puzzle Leagues have seen some fierce competition and our daily puzzles have continued to thrive. In this article we will be reflecting on the most popular and challenging puzzles of the past month, as well as crowning the Puzzle Forge's chess puzzle master!
Puzzle Forge, Best Puzzle Winner - Jayakumar
After a popular vote on 4 of the best puzzles from the Puzzle Forge, we are proud to announce Jayakumar as the ChessPuzzler Puzzle Master of March with his puzzle: simple mate in 2. Thank you to everyone who got involved and voted! New submissions to the puzzle forge will be counted towards next month's competition until April the 25th.
Puzzle Forge - JayakumarJayakumar's winning puzzle is clean, simple and beautiful. Solve below.
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Most Popular Daily Puzzle - Daily Puzzle 13/03/2025
After exploding on Reddit, this Daily Puzzle was solved twice as many times as normal! A tricky, strange and sneaky composition which requires the Puzzler to be bold and brave with their first move.
Daily Puzzle - 13/03/2025White to play. Checkmate in 2 moves. Solve below.
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Most Challenging Puzzle League Puzzle
The Puzzle Leagues saw strong competition this month, with our reigning champion Mkoslowski taking 3 out of 4 of the championship titles!
March Winners:
- Week 1 - mkoslowski
- Week 2 - mkoslowski
- Week 3 - Tchebarbaridade
- Week 4 - mkoslowski
However, one puzzle was so tricky everyone made at least 1 mistake! Can you solve it first time? White to play, checkmate in 6.
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So, that rounds up our top puzzles of March! 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