📚 Chess Problems

Composed positions: the two-mover to the helpmate, and the solver’s particular pleasure.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject chess problems in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur	Max Euwe	1963	10
	Test Your Chess IQ	August Livshitz	1981	8
	Poems and Problems (McGraw-Hill paperbacks)	Vladimir Nabokov	1970	7
	Starting Out	John Emms	2002	6
	The major tactics of chess	Franklin Knowles Young	1898	5
	Chess	Laszlo Polgar	1995	5
	Kleinste Schachaufgaben	Werner Speckmann	1900	4
	Win at chess	Fred Reinfeld	1945	4
	The chess mysteries of the Arabian knights	Raymond M. Smullyan	1981	4
	Test and improve your chess	Lev Alburt	1988	4
	Nouveau traité du jeu des échecs	L. C. de La Bourdonnais	1833	3
	One hundred chess problems	Arthur Cyril Pearson	1879	3
	The game of chess	Howard Staunton	1888	3
	Lessons in chess strategy	W. H. Cozens	1968	3
	What's the Next Move?	George Francis Kane	1974	3
	Test your positional play	Robert Bellin	1985	3
	Logische phantasien	Wolfgang Dittmann	1986	3
	The book of extraordinary chess problems	Stephen Addison	1989	3
	Schachminiaturen	Oscar Blumenthal	1903	2
	The modern chess problem	Philip Hamilton Williams	1903	2
	Mate in two moves	Brian Harley	1931	2
	How to solve chess problems	Kenneth Samuel Howard	1945	2
	Chess for match players	Winter, William	1951	2
	Chess tactics for beginners	Robert Graham Wade	1961	2
	Chess problems	Lipton, Michael.	1963	2
	Winning chess tactics illustrated	Israel Albert Horowitz	1963	2
	Enjoyment of Chess Problems	Kenneth S. Howard	1967	2
	Pick of the best chess problems	B. P. Barnes	1976	2
	Miniature chess problems from many countries	Colin Russ	1982	2
	Miniature chess problems	Colin Russ	1982	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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