The Giant Chess Puzzle Book
Author: Zenon Franco
Publisher: Gambit Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906454203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChess puzzles to challenge and entertain players from novices to grandmasters
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John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book
Author: John Nunn
Publisher: Gambit Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost chess puzzle books put you in an artificial situation: you are told a combination exists, what the theme is and what you are required to achieve. This one is different. In a real game, a player may sometimes need to find a combination. On the other hand he may have to reject a tactical idea and simply find a good positional move. His task is to find the right move, whatever it may be. The 300 puzzles in this book put you precisely in that situation. Spectacular ideas abound in these positions, but it is for you to decide whether to go in for them, or whether you would be falling into a trap. If you need them, there are hints to help you on your way. The book ends with a series of tests to measure your skills against those of other players. For this new edition, John Nunn, a top-class grandmaster and a solving world champion, has added 50 new puzzles (with hints and detailed solutions) to test your skills to the full. For ease of following, extra diagrams have been added to the solutions throughout. Overall the book is 60 per cent bigger than the first edition.
The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book
Author: John Emms
Publisher: Gambit Publications
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781901983340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Gambit Book of Instructive Chess Puzzles
Author: Graham Burgess
Publisher: Gambit Publications
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906454289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSolving tactical puzzles is one of the most effective ways to improve your chess. This convenient book provides 300 exercises, with instructive points highlighted in the solutions. There is something here for everyone. The puzzles in the first two chapters are based on a clear-cut tactic or checkmate, such as those explained in Gambit's best-sellers How to Beat Your Dad at Chess and Chess Tactics for Kids. The endgame challenges highlight tactics and principles in action. In practice it is vital to defend resiliently and seek counterattacking chances - there is an innovative chapter on these rarely-covered themes as well as puzzles where the reader must decide how to punch home an attack. Later chapters help readers develop a vital skill: the ability to make tough chessboard decisions. Attack, sacrifice, grab material, defend or simplify - it's for you to decide! Principles and guidelines are emphasized, together with common sources of error. The final section of puzzles will prove a stern challenge even for the best players, with the reader exposed to the full complexity of modern chess - with a few helpful hints along the way.
Chess
Author: László Polgár
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Published: 2013-08-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781579129507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWin 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.
Improve Your Chess Tactics
Author: Yakov Neishtadt
Publisher: New In Chess
Published: 2024-04-17
Total Pages: 862
ISBN-13: 9083378837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe upgraded 2024 edition of a modern classic
The Brainiest Insaniest Ultimate Puzzle Book!
Author: Robert Leighton
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2006-12-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780761143864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFully illustrated in color, this treasure trove features 250 puzzles on every imaginable theme and subject. The book is a bonanza of mazes, word games, visual and logic puzzles, and more.
1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners
Author: Franco Masetti
Publisher: New In Chess
Published: 2019-01-11
Total Pages: 2069
ISBN-13: 9056915584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChess 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.
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Checker Puzzles
Author: Robert W. Pike
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780806979755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUniversally popular, checkers is one of the world s oldest and most elegantly structured board games and on a high level, it can demand real strategic thought. Put your skill to the test with these puzzles all based on the Standard American game. (Federation rules appear in their entirety.) Each is solvable in no more than six-and-a-half moves, and sometimes, the winner even seems at a serious disadvantage at the start. Quite a few of the solutions list alternative patterns of play. "
The Power of Pawns
Author: Jorg Hickl
Publisher: New In Chess
Published: 2016-05-11
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9056916327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you want to improve at chess, you must know the characteristics of typical pawn formations. Understanding the pawn structure is a key tool when you are evaluating a position on the board. One simple pawn move can ruin your position or win the game. Post-beginners should know the basic essentials of chess structures and that is what this modern training manual focuses on. Experienced chess teacher Grandmaster Jörg Hickl helps you to recognize the important characteristics of pawn structures, learn how you can and should develop your pieces, identify how you can improve your position and develop a plan of action. This book provides common sense guidance and Jörg Hickl uses practical examples to explain typical structures, strategies and plans. His tips and exercises are both highly enjoyable and to the point.
