Chess books

Ten Kindle books by Carl Brodsky, who also built this trainer. They are $2.99 each and they are not a different product from the site: the same puzzles, the same ideas, worked at length on paper instead of a few minutes at a time in a browser.

We publish these, so treat this page as the disclosure it is. Everything on the rest of this site is free and stays free, and nothing here is required to use any of it.

The books

• Chess for Beginners Starts at the pieces and the rules, then the first tactics worth knowing.
• Easy Chess Puzzles Short puzzles with one clear answer, for someone who has just learned how the pieces move.
• Chess for Intermediate Players For the point where you know the patterns and keep losing to them anyway.
• Winning at Chess The tactics that decide club games, worked one at a time.
• Chess Tactics Book: Improve and Win A working set of tactical positions rather than a book about tactics.
• Chess Strategy and Tactics: Win the Middlegame Where the game is usually decided, and what to look for when nothing is hanging.
• Blind Chess Tactics Solve in your head. The position is given, the board is not.
• Club Level Blind Chess Tactics The same idea at club strength, once the easy ones stop being hard.
• Advanced Blind Chess Tactics Longer lines held entirely in your head.
• Rossolimo Blind Chess Tactics Blindfold work drawn from one opening, for players who meet it often.

Which one

If you are starting out, Chess for Beginners covers the rules and the first tactics. If you already play and want the pattern work, Chess Tactics Book is the straightforward set.

The Blind Chess Tactics books are a different exercise: the position is given in words and you solve without a board. If that sounds like something you want, try the free blindfold trainer first. It is the same skill and it costs nothing to find out whether you like it.