Puzzle Books

  • ELO: 2000
  • -
  • 2200+
Book cover of Greatest 515 puzzles, The best OTB and online tactics of 2021 by Balogh Csaba, chess book review
  • Greatest 515 puzzles, The best OTB and online tactics of 2021
  • Balogh Csaba
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  • ELO: 2000
  • -
  • 2200+
Book cover of Greatest 501 Puzzles, Part 2, From Practical Games of 2012 by Balogh Csaba, chess book review
  • Greatest 501 Puzzles, Part 2, From Practical Games of 2012
  • Balogh Csaba
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  • ELO: 2000
  • -
  • 2200+
Book cover of Greatest 365 Puzzles, Part 1, From Practical Games of 2012 by Balogh Csaba, chess book review
  • Greatest 365 Puzzles, Part 1, From Practical Games of 2012
  • Balogh Csaba
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  • ELO: 2200
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  • 2200+
Book cover of Calculation! by Sam Shankland, chess book review
  • Calculation!
  • Sam Shankland
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  • ELO: 1400
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  • 1600
Book cover of 1000 Checkmate Combinations by Viktor Henkin, chess book review
  • 1000 Checkmate Combinations
  • Viktor Henkin
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  • ELO: 1800
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  • 2200
Book cover of The Chess Manual of Avoidable Mistakes 2: Test yourself! by Romain Edouard, chess book review
  • The Chess Manual of Avoidable Mistakes 2: Test yourself!
  • Romain Edouard
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  • ELO: 1400
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  • 1800
Book cover of Bent Larsen's Good Move Guide by Bent Larsen, chess book review
  • Bent Larsen’s Good Move Guide
  • Bent Larsen
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  • ELO: 1800
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  • 2200
Book cover of The Best Move by Vlastimil Hort, Vlastimil Jansa, chess book review
  • The Best Move
  • Vlastimil Hort, Vlastimil Jansa
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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.