The Knight's Notebook
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Free chess puzzles.
On paper.

Four positions from Notebook No. 1, graded to your level, with every answer explained. We email you a PDF to print: paper keeps you focused, so it is just you, a pencil and the position.

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Your level

Not sure? Your online rating is a good guide. If you only know how the pieces move, take Beginner.

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Beginner · Notebook No. 1 · “Mate in one”

Intermediate · Notebook No. 1 · “Mate in one”

Advanced · Notebook No. 1 · “Mate in one”

In the PDF

Seven pages, ready to print.

The start of Notebook No. 1

The page that opens its first chapter, with what to look for, then two positions a page, with lines to write your move.

Four positions, one idea

Each chapter trains one idea. The sample's is mate in one, with positions rated for your level.

Every answer explained

The solutions are on page 6, each with the idea behind the move, often with the tempting move that fails, so you can check yourself without an engine.

Notebook No. 1 has sixty positions like these, and a new notebook comes every month, as a PDF you print at home.

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