Mate in 3 puzzles
Free Xiangqi mate-in-3 puzzles for stronger players: proven forced mates with the defender's best replies played for you. Solve online, no download.
Three moves against best defence. These are the hardest positions in the set: a single winning first move, the defender's most stubborn answer at each step, and a mate that only exists if every move is exact.
Set the board up in your head before you touch a piece. The winning line usually combines two of the basic patterns, a check that drives the General to a square where a second piece is already waiting. If you can solve these reliably, you are calculating at a level most club players never reach.
Solve the mate in 3 puzzles on the board
A wrong move only lets you retry. The board plays the defender's best reply in the longer puzzles.
Mate in 3 puzzles
Find the move that delivers immediate checkmate. Take your time — wrong moves let you retry.
12 puzzles · Red to move
All 12 mate in 3 puzzles
Red pieces carry the person-radical forms (俥傌炮相仕帥兵); Black the plain ones. The side to move is shown under each board.
- #1 · Red to moveRating 2153
Horse mate · mate in 3
- #2 · Red to moveRating 2262
Chariot mate · mate in 3
- #3 · Red to moveRating 2107
Chariot mate · mate in 3
- #4 · Red to moveRating 2248
Chariot mate · mate in 3
- #5 · Red to moveRating 2140
Soldier mate · mate in 3
- #6 · Red to moveRating 2281
Chariot mate · mate in 3
- #7 · Red to moveRating 2234
Chariot mate · mate in 3
- #8 · Red to moveRating 2242
Chariot mate · mate in 3
- #9 · Red to moveRating 2257
Soldier mate · mate in 3
- #10 · Red to moveRating 2284
Horse mate · mate in 3
- #11 · Red to moveRating 2291
Chariot mate · mate in 3
- #12 · Red to moveRating 2224
Chariot mate · mate in 3