Pocket Chess Puzzles: Beginner

Your first real tactics.

200 chess puzzles taken from real games, for players who know how the pieces move and are ready to start finding tactical ideas for themselves.

The puzzles are mixed rather than grouped by type, so you are never told what to look for. Just look at the position and work out what matters.

Each puzzle has its own page, with ruled space underneath to write out your move and your opponent's reply in pencil. Writing out the whole line makes you look beyond your own move and think about how your opponent can reply.

Answers come after every nine puzzles, rather than hidden at the back. Try to solve all nine puzzles before checking the answers, then go back and see how you did. The difficulty is shown with the answer, not the puzzle, so you have no idea in advance whether the next position will be easy or difficult — just as you don't over the board. Every solution has been checked with Stockfish, a powerful chess engine.

Once you have checked your answer, you'll also see the tactical ideas involved, shown as labelled tags. The terminology is explained in the glossary, helping you build up a wider range of tactical patterns and recognise them more easily in your own games.

Small enough to take with you, and easy to pick up for ten minutes at a time.

• 200 puzzles from real games
• One puzzle per page
• Ruled space to write out your answer
• Solutions close at hand
• Tactical ideas labelled and explained in the glossary
• Difficulty shown with the answer, not the puzzle
• Every solution checked with Stockfish

“Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make people happy.” — Siegbert Tarrasch

Publisher - Sixty-Four Press

Language - English

Perfect Bound

Contributors

By author

Charles Davison

Published Date - 2026-10-15

ISBN - 9788797746264

Dimensions - 16.5 x 11.4 x 1.3 cm

Page Count - 242