Chess books that focus on developing your problem solving skills rather than teaching theoretical knowledge. Most online resources for chess puzzles are bad, and the material handpicked by Grandmasters in books far surpasses anything available for free in both problem quality, analysis quality, and annotations, which are often nonexistent online.
Books on tactics include those that talk about how to calculate rather than focusing on problem solving. Those in the puzzles and studies section are devoted purely to problems and collections of puzzles.
Rating:
- 2000
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- 2200+
- Perfect Your Chess
- Andrei Volokitin, Vladimir Grabinsky
Rating:
- 1400
- -
- 1800
- Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 1
- Vladimir Grabinsky, Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko
Rating:
- 1400
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- 1800
- Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 2
- Vladimir Grabinsky, Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko
Rating:
- -800
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- 1400
- The 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know Workbook
- Frank Erwich
Rating:
- 800
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- 1600
- 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations
- Fred Reinfeld
Rating:
- 1200
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- 1800
- Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games
- László Polgár
Rating:
- -800
- -
- 1200
- 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners
- Franco Masetti, Roberto Messa
