White to play and mate in one.
Your opponent moves…
What is the Arabian mate?
In an Arabian mate the king stands in the corner. The rook gives check from the square next to it, and the knight protects the rook and covers the king's last escape square. Two pieces working together, and the king has nowhere to go.
The name points to shatranj, the older chess played in the Arab world, where the rook was the most valuable piece. The pattern, with diagrams and exercises, is under the Arabian mate.
Look for a knight that can reach f6 or f3, and for a rook that can come in right next to the king. The mate is often one sacrifice away.
How the puzzles work
There are 150 puzzles here. Choose a level above the board. Within each level the puzzles get harder and harder, and when you come back you pick up where you left off.
Your opponent makes the first move, then it's your turn. If you get stuck, Hint shows which piece to move, and Show the solution plays the rest. The theme only shows once the puzzle is done, but here you already know what you're looking for.
In Puzzle training you get puzzles in this theme at your own level, and see how you're doing in each theme.
More puzzles
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Puzzle Sprint
Three minutes, three lives. How many can you solve?
- Mate in one
- Mate in two
- Mate in three
- Fork
- Pin
- Skewer
- Discovered attack
- Double check
- Sacrifice
- Deflection
- Attraction
- Hanging piece
- In-between move
- Back-rank mate
- Smothered mate
- Anastasia's mate
- Boden's mate
- Opera mate
- Epaulette mate
- Swallow's tail mate
- Morphy's mate
- Pillsbury's mate
- Promotion
- Endgame
- Rook endgames
- Pawn endgames
- Zugzwang
The puzzles come from Lichess, fetched on November 1, 2026.
Updated November 14, 2026