White to Play and Mate in Two
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Publisher:
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780716020011
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The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0486482014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoin Holmes and Watson as they examine interrupted games to deduce prior moves. A series of increasingly complex chess mysteries culminates in a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty. The master sleuth instructs his companion (and us) in the intricacies of retrograde analysis; readers need only a knowledge of how the pieces move.
How to Solve Chess Problems
Author: Kenneth S. Howard
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1961-01-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780486207483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK58 two-move problems, 46 three-movers, and eight four-movers composed during the last 30 years and illustrative of the best work of 27 outstanding American problem composers. The author has included practical suggestions for solving each problem, an explanation of common terms and an exhaustive index. Invaluable for any player, even beginners interested in problems.
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.
Outrageous Chess Problems
Author: Burt Hochberg
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781402719097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"[It's] enough to drive experienced chess players to insanity, but they will enjoy the ride....The author warns the reader from the start anything goes....Buy this book...and have fun!"--Games It's outrageous and amazing and irresistible: these brainbusting chess problems are the devilish inventions of the world's greatest puzzle creators. Chess mavens won't believe what they'll find, because in these games, the usual rules just don't apply. For example, there's Billiards Chess, where pieces can carom off the board at a right angle and return. In Checkless Chess, check is an illegal move...unless it's checkmate. Refusal Chess allows a player to refuse an opponent's move and demand an alternative. There's even a variation called Collaboration, in which both sides must cooperate to achieve checkmate. And, the coup de grace: the world's hardest chess problem ever posed.
Sam Loyd and His Chess Problems
Author: Alain Campbell White
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Gödelian Puzzle Book
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0486315770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. No background in formal logic necessary.
How to Force Checkmate
Author: Fred Reinfeld
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1958-01-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780486204390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK300 diagrammed positions, subdivided into situations of mate in one, two, or three moves, introduce you to a vast array of checkmate situations. For study, as entertainment during leisure moments or travel (you need no board), this book will help end your games with a brilliant touch.
Build Up Your Chess 1
Author: Artur Yusupov
Publisher: Quality Chess Uk Llp
Published: 2008-09-01
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781906552015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArtur Yusupov's complete course of chess training stretches to nine volumes, guiding the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles. The course is structured in three series with three levels. The Fundamentals level is the easiest one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players. The various topics – Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, Endgames, Calculating Variations, and Openings – are spread evenly across the nine volumes, giving readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books. This book is the first volume at the Fundamentals level. The Build Up Your Chess series won the prestigious Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world.
1001 Deadly Checkmates
Author: John Nunn
Publisher: Gambit Publications
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906454258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor all chess-players, from beginners to world champions, from kids to seniors, delivering checkmate is the greatest thrill the game has to offer. The ability to spot checkmates is a vital skill - and this easy-to-use book shows you how it is done. With the help of Grandmaster John Nunn, you will be ready to shock your next opponent with a deadly checkmate, whether in a school match, a club tournament - or even a championship game! By focusing exclusively on positions from real games, ranging from junior events to grandmaster encounters, Nunn ensures that the mates featured are those which arise most often in real life. He also highlights themes and ideas that are often missed in practice. While solving these puzzles, your all-important 'mental library' of patterns will grow, leading to an immediate increase in your playing strength. All 1001 puzzle positions have been carefully checked, and are graded by theme and difficulty. Points are awarded for finding the checkmate, so you can measure your skill. Most of the puzzles are suitable for novice and junior players. The last chapter challenges you with 'extreme checkmates', but don't worry: you'll be ready for them!
