Chess Word Search
By Reggie J·Updated
Chess word search puzzles with board and piece English for adults — pawn, castle, endgame and quiet strategy words. Easy to hard plus large print. No brand names.
Chess puzzles
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Chess: Quiet Opening
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Chess: Pawn Push
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Chess: Evening Rest
Hard · 15×15 · 18 words
Hard Chess: Full Board
Large print · 9×9 · 8 words
Large Print Chess: Soft Pawn
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
Chess: Endgame Study
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
Chess: Clock Match
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
Chess: Slow Pace
What words are in the chess word search?
Board and piece English — no brand or titled-game names.
The full chess word bank has 49 words. Each puzzle picks a set from this list, so no two grids are quite the same:
ATTACK · BISHOP · BLUNDER · BOARD · BOOK · BRILLIANCY · CAPTURE · CASTLE · CASTLING · CENTER · CHECK · CHESS · CLOCK · DEFENSE · DEVELOP · DRAW · ENDGAME · FILE · FORK · GAMBIT · KING · KNIGHT · MATE · MIDDLEGAME · MOVE · OPENING · PAWN · PIN · PLAY · POSITION · PROMOTE · PUZZLE · QUEEN · RANK · RATING · RESIGN · ROOK · SACRIFICE · SCORE · SKEWER · SQUARE · STALEMATE · STRATEGY · STUDY · TACTIC · TEMPO · TIMER · TOURNAMENT · TURN
Who is this theme good for?
Quiet strategy evenings for adults.
A solving tip
Long words like ENDGAME and STRATEGY stand out first.
How these puzzles work
Every puzzle is free and plays in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Drag across a word, or tap its first and last letter. Easy grids are 10×10 with words across and down; medium grids are 12×12 and add diagonals; hard grids are 15×15 with words in all eight directions. Press Large print above any grid for bigger letters. Progress is saved on your device, and there is never a timer. New to word searches? Read how to play.
Sources & notes
Word lists on Words at Rest use American English spelling (for example color, not colour). Merriam-Webster records colour as chiefly the British spelling of color. Merriam-Webster: colour.
“chiefly British spelling of color”
