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Puzzlesby Piece

Solve puzzles piece by piece.

What can a knight do that a bishop can’t? What makes a rook dangerous? Puzzles by Piece takes 480 puzzles from real games and divides them into six chapters: pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen and king. In every puzzle, the chapter’s piece is key to the combination. Each chapter begins with seven worked examples, then gives you positions to solve for yourself.

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Puzzles by Piece, standing
Puzzles by Piece, open
Worked examples from the Pawn chapter facing its first four puzzles.

Inside

  1. 480 puzzles, all from real games
  2. Six chapters: pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen and king
  3. Seven worked examples at the start of every chapter
  4. Clear diagrams with room to write your line
  5. Answers only a short flip away

Every position is from a real game in the Lichess puzzle database, and every line is checked by Stockfish, the opponent’s replies included.

Who it is for

Players who want to understand what each piece can do, one at a time.

Improve your tactics piece by piece.

The book

Puzzles480
LayoutFour to a page, answers every 20
LevelPuzzles rated 1000–2400 on Lichess
Pages172
Trim6 × 9 in (152 × 229 mm), paperback
AuthorCharles Davison
PublisherSixty-Four Press
ISBN978-87-977462-7-1

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