Puzzle Books

  • ELO: 1400
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  • 1800
Book cover of Chess Exam And Training Guide: Rate Yourself And Learn How To Improve by Igor Khmelnitsky, chess book review
  • Chess Exam And Training Guide, Rate Yourself And Learn How To Improve
  • Igor Khmelnitsky
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  • ELO: 2000
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  • 2200+
Chess book review, Perfect Your Chess, Andrei Volokitin
  • Perfect Your Chess
  • Andrei Volokitin, Vladimir Grabinsky
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  • ELO: 1400
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  • 1600
Book cover of Practical Chess Exercises: 600 Lessons from Tactics to Strategy by Ray Cheng, chess book review
  • Practical Chess Exercises: 600 Lessons from Tactics to Strategy
  • Ray Cheng
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  • ELO: 800
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  • 1000
Chess book review, Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, Bobby Fischer
  • Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
  • Bobby Fischer
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  • ELO: 1200
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  • 1600
Chess book review, Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 1, Vladimir Grabinsky
  • Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 1
  • Vladimir Grabinsky, Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko
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  • ELO: 1200
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  • 1600
Chess book review, Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 2, Vladimir Grabinsky
  • Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 2
  • Vladimir Grabinsky, Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko
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  • ELO: 800
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  • 1200
Chess book review, The 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know Workbook, Frank Erwich
  • The 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know Workbook
  • Frank Erwich
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  • ELO: 1800
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  • 2000
Chess book review, 400 Chess Strategy Puzzles, Martyn Kravtsiv
  • 400 Chess Strategy Puzzles
  • Martyn Kravtsiv
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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.