Chess Mazes 1

Chess Mazes 1

Author: Bruce Alberston

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2010-12-17

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1936490099

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Stop Hanging Pieces! A completely new kind of chess puzzle helps you develop the necessary visualization skills to take your game to the next level The planning and visualization skills that come from working on Chess Mazes are valuable and instructive. If you are one who often loses games by hanging pieces or missing mates, then this is the book for you. "There are many good books which present chess combinations and explain tactical motifs with the goal of training your tactical ability. Thinking techniques are also well covered in the game's literature. But what about visualization? This is where it is much more difficult to find good material. But now, Bruce Alberston's highly original work fills this gap. "To master his puzzles, you have to exert better control and command of the full potential of all the pieces and you have to visualize their movements in your mind's eye. This sounds more difficult than it is, but in fact only one piece moves in each maze. The result? Excellent training to avoid one-move blunders!" - From the Foreword by German GM Karsten Mueller


How Good Is Your Chess?

How Good Is Your Chess?

Author: Larry Evans

Publisher: Cardoza

Published: 2004-04-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781580421263

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Grandmaster and Hall of Fame chess legend Larry Evans, draws upon his vast experience as 5-time USA champion, author of 25 books, and Bobby Fischer's second, to present a fun and challenging new approach for chess players. Readers test their skills against 100 fascinating positions from actual games and must choose the best move among three choices. Each correct answer earns the reader 25 points; no points are given for incorrect choices. At the end of the series, players can calculate their own rating, be it absolute beginner or even grandmaster! In the solutions section, Evans carefully explains the proper thinking a player must employ to approach the position and why both alternatives are inferior. Readers not only find their true chess level, but get a complete course in exactly where they can go wrong.


The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book

The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book

Author: John Emms

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9781901983340

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This book provides a wealth of puzzle positions to test just about every facet of your tactical skills. The puzzles in this book have been selected by analysing games new and old in search of original puzzle positions. It is very unlikely that even seasoned solvers will recognise many of these positions. Emms, by allying his skills with those of powerful computers, has also made every effort to ensure that the solutions are sound, and that there are no unmentioned alternative solutions. The book begins with 100 relatively easy positions suitable for novices, and ends with 100 extremely tough puzzles, which provide a mind-bending challenge even for top-class players. There are 1001 puzzles in all.


Chess Mazes 2

Chess Mazes 2

Author: Bruce Alberston

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2010-12-17

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1936490102

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The Chess Puzzle for Everyone! A completely new kind of chess puzzle helps you develop the necessary visualization skills to take your game to the next level When the first volume of Chess Mazes was released, it was an immediate hit with both chess instructors and students. It was a completely new kind of chess puzzle to help develop your chessplaying visualization skills. In Chess Mazes 2, author Bruce Alberston has created another 216 fascinating chess mazes. This book is geared for intermediate and advanced beginners. Designed to keep pace with a student's increasing development, the chapters appear in progressive order of difficulty, and form kind of a chess course in itself. As German International Grandmaster Karsten Müller observed in his Introduction to the first volume, solving Chess Maze puzzles is ...excellent training to avoid one-move blunders!”


1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners

1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners

Author: Franco Masetti

Publisher: New In Chess

Published: 2019-01-11

Total Pages: 2069

ISBN-13: 9056915584

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Chess is 99% tactics. If this celebrated observation is true for the master, how much more so for beginners and casual players! If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training combinations. There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises. Chess masters and trainers Franco Masetti and Roberto Messa have done both: they explain the basic tactical ideas AND provide an enormous amount of exercises for each different theme. Masetti and Messa have created a great first tactics book. It teaches you how to: ¯ identify weak spots in the position of your opponent ¯ recognize patterns of combinations ¯ visualize tricks. 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners can also be used as a course text book, because only the most didactically productive exercises have been used.


Chess Puzzles for Kids

Chess Puzzles for Kids

Author: Murray Chandler

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906454401

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Contains one hundred chess positions to solve, ranging from very easy to incredibly difficult. Every puzzle is preceded by an instructive example illustrating a pattern.


Chess

Chess

Author: László Polgár

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Published: 2013-08-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781579129507

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Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book.. More than 6,000 illustrations make it easy to see the possibilities regardless of where your pieces are on the board. The book also includes the basic rules of the game and an international bibliography. Chess is the ultimate book on winning the game.


A Course in Chess Tactics

A Course in Chess Tactics

Author: Dejan Bojkov

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906454142

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This book fills a valuable niche in the ambitious player's library. The authors present each major tactical theme in turn, explaining how it works and providing inspiring examples. They then explain how you can spot the idea in your own games and use it to your advantage.


Boost Your Chess

Boost Your Chess

Author: Artur Yusupov

Publisher: Quality Chess

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906552404

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Renowned chess teacher and grandmaster Artur Yusupov continues his complete course of chess improvement. Yusupovs previous books have proven popular with chess coaches all over the world, who use the tests on their pupils cut out the middleman and read Yusupov direct. Boost Your Chess 1 is part of a nine-book course of three series each of three books. The series are Build up your Chess, Boost your Chess and Chess Evolution. Each series starts with The Fundamentals, then the chess level increases in Beyond the Basics, and culminates in Mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.


101 Enigmatic Puzzles

101 Enigmatic Puzzles

Author: Mark J. P. Wolf

Publisher: Bookbaby

Published: 2020-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781098300579

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101 Enigmatic Puzzles: Fractal Mazes, Quantum Chess, Anagram Sudoku, and More is a book of gourmet, handcrafted puzzles is for the puzzle connoisseur who wants hearty meals, not just a series of snacks; unlike many puzzle books which feature large number of little puzzles each of which only take a few minutes, most of these puzzles are carefully constructed to provide a challenge that will last awhile, for the serious puzzler who enjoys being immersed in a puzzle for a time. Many of the puzzles here may take a couple of hours or perhaps even an entire afternoon; though the book is also designed so that one can browse and graze allowing casual puzzlers to explore and enjoy as well. In addition to small, sample puzzles provided when new puzzle forms are presented, there is an entire Hints Section provided, with hints for every puzzle, designed to make the solving easier, while still maintaining a challenge. Thus, the book should be of interest to both hardcore puzzlers and casual puzzlers alike, whether one is looking for brain exercise or an amusing diversion, one can find it here. Most of the puzzles here introduce new twists on older puzzle forms, and some introduce new forms of puzzles as well, that, in addition to needing solutions, require one to figure out how to go about solving them. As the range of puzzles is broad, so is the book's audience; whether one enjoys logic puzzles, mazes, chess puzzles, crossword puzzles, Sudoku, number puzzles, trivia puzzles, or word puzzles, one will find them here, and new varieties of each of them as well. As some of the puzzles combine existing puzzle forms, fans of one type of puzzle will be introduced to other types of puzzles, potentially broadening their areas of interest (for example, the Anagram Sudoku puzzles, which combine Sudoku with anagramming).