A "puzzle book" book offers chess board diagrams showing positions where you must find the strongest move. Most books like this are focused on combinations. Most people call chess combinations "tactics." Some puzzle books might be positional in nature. Others, like Practical Chess Exercises, do both combinations and other types of puzzles.
A "tactics book" could be a puzzle book or might be like Winning Chess Tactics, which offers explanations and instruction as well as some puzzles for solving.
How do you distinguish between a chess tactics book and a chess puzzle book? What are some good examples of each for a below 1200 player?
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