Puzzle Books

  • ELO: 1400
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  • 1800
Book cover of The Reassess Your Chess Workbook by Jeremy Silman, chess book review
  • The Reassess Your Chess Workbook
  • Jeremy Silman
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  • ELO: 1600
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  • 2000
Book cover of Imagination in Chess: How To Think Creatively And Avoid Foolish Mistakes by Paata Gaprindashvili, chess book review
  • Imagination in Chess: How To Think Creatively And Avoid Foolish Mistakes
  • Paata Gaprindashvili
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  • ELO: 1200
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  • 1400
Book cover of Learn Chess the Right Way! Book 5: Finding Winning Moves by Susan Polgar, chess book review
  • Learn Chess the Right Way! Book 5: Finding Winning Moves
  • Susan Polgar
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  • ELO: 1200
  • -
  • 1400
Book cover of Learn Chess the Right Way! Book 4 Sacrifice to win by Susan Polgar, chess book review
  • Learn Chess the Right Way! Book 4 Sacrifice to win
  • Susan Polgar
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  • ELO: 1200
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  • 1400
Book cover of Learn Chess the Right Way! Book 3: Mastering Defensive Techniques by Susan Polgar, chess book review
  • Learn Chess the Right Way! Book 3: Mastering Defensive Techniques
  • Susan Polgar
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  • ELO: 1200
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  • 1400
Book cover of Learn Chess the Right Way! Book 1: Must-know Checkmates by Susan Polgar, chess book review
  • Learn Chess the Right Way! Book 1: Must-know Checkmates
  • Susan Polgar
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  • ELO: 1800
  • -
  • 2000
Combination Challenge by Lou Hays – Chess Book Review
  • Combination Challenge
  • Lou Hays
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  • ELO: 1600
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  • 2000
Book cover of Test Your Chess IQ: First Challenge by August Livshitz, chess book review
  • Test Your Chess IQ: First Challenge
  • August Livshitz
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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.