About Remarkable Chess

Curated chess puzzle sets as PDFs — made to feel at home on the reMarkable paper tablet, and anywhere else you want to think slowly about chess.

Why reMarkable?

The reMarkable is a rare thing: a digital device that gets out of the way. No notifications, no colour, no glare. Just a surface that feels like paper and responds like a pen. It occupies a space between analogue and digital that almost nothing else does — the convenience of a device with the calm of a notebook.

Chess belongs in that space. Not the gamified, clock-ticking, streak-chasing version you find in most apps — but the slower kind. The kind where you sit with a position, look at it from both sides, and actually think.

When you solve puzzles on a screen with instant feedback and move highlights, it is easy to pattern-match your way through without truly understanding what is happening. When you work through a position on paper — or on something that feels like paper — you are forced to read the board yourself. You have to visualise. You have to know your coordinates. You have to commit to a move before you see whether it is right.

That slower, more deliberate practice builds a different kind of chess understanding. Remarkable Chess is built around that idea.

Which devices it's for

Designed first for the reMarkable Paper Pro. Because the Paper Pro, Paper Pure, reMarkable 2, and reMarkable 1 all share the same 3:4 screen aspect and the same Codex viewer, the PDFs fit edge-to-edge on all four — just at smaller physical scale on the 10.3″ models.

The reMarkable Move has a different screen ratio and needs a layout of its own. A dedicated Move version is in the works and will appear on the sets page when ready.

Beyond the reMarkable lineup, the PDFs print cleanly on paper too. Pure black and white, high contrast, one puzzle per page — they hold up wherever you want to study away from a screen.

Who is behind this

Vasser is a Norwegian technology and design company. We build digital products and help organisations think clearly about how technology can serve people rather than distract them.

We also happen to be fans of the reMarkable tablet and the game of chess. Remarkable Chess started as an internal tool — something we wanted for ourselves — and turned into something worth sharing.

Remarkable Chess is not affiliated with or endorsed by reMarkable AS.