Do you want informations and figures about Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day? Welcome on the chess figures! The first chess problem was published on October 16, 2000. On May 6, 2008 I had published 2759 chess problems from checkmate in 1 to checkmate in 6. Look figures below for more details.

The 1172 oldest checkmates are available online. Click on links below to search them in my checkmate database.

The last checkmates

Checkmate	Difficulty	When	Title
Mat #1	a long time ago
Mat #2	**	today	R.Melis, 1985
Mat #3	****	yesterday	A.Mongredien, Hamburgischer Correspondant, 1925
Mat #4	***	3 days	A.Novotny, Leipziger Illustrierte Ztg, 1854
Mat #5	****	11 days	R.Kraetschmer, 2002
Mat #6	*****	25 days	R.Kraetschmer, Schach, 1999

Overall chess problems figures

Checkmates figures Checkmates in 1 15 Checkmates in 2 1 380 Checkmates in 3 900 Checkmates in 4 289 Checkmates in 5 92 Checkmates in 6 83

Difficulties figures Puzzle difficulties * 104 Puzzle difficulties ** 1 240 Puzzle difficulties *** 1 077 Puzzle difficulties **** 280 Puzzle difficulties ***** 52 Puzzle difficulties ****** 6

Chess problems origins

The best years Problems from 1902 173 Problems from 1958 63 Problems from 1975 62 Problems from 1957 58 Problems from 1930 58

The best authors W.J.Mrs.Baird 202 H.Ahues 138 M.I.Adabashev 72 A.Akerblom 41 B.P.Barnes 41