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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Chess books are great fun. You read them, think you understand them, and when you have finished them, you go away and get beat again. Disheartened, and £100 lighter, you wonder what to do. The key is focus. The focus is tactical chess problems. Do them over and over and over until you recognise them like your own Mother.
1001 Brilliant ways to Checkmate is one of these Books. 1001 tactical puzzles. Go over them time and again. You can't help but get better.
The upside is that it is a cheap book, and a very simple format.
The downside is that the solutions at the back are in old descriptive notation, not algebraic. You really get used to this very soon, and the solutions are rarely longer than 4 moves anyhow, and that point is purely the reason for my 4 star rating.
1001 Brilliant ways to Checkmate is one of these Books. 1001 tactical puzzles. Go over them time and again. You can't help but get better.
The upside is that it is a cheap book, and a very simple format.
The downside is that the solutions at the back are in old descriptive notation, not algebraic. You really get used to this very soon, and the solutions are rarely longer than 4 moves anyhow, and that point is purely the reason for my 4 star rating.
You need to be a fair chess player already for this book, understanding all the Tactical moves like Forks, Skewers, Discovered check, double check and Pins etc. These are NOT explained in this book.
People always say great players can see many moves ahead. After a month or so of studying this book, you start to understand how that feels, and what it means. I suggest 10 problems per day (every day).
Great book, but it doesn't work its self. You have to dedicate time and effort.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This book simply contains 1001 puzzles that each lead to checkmate. Annotation is kept to an absolute minimum. Some reviewers seem to have found this a problem, but I think that they have missed the point. I am an intermediate player and do not get every puzzle first time, but the aim of the book is to teach you the various tactical ideas that can lead to checkmate. The same themes occur again and again in the book and the more puzzles you do, the more familiar with those ideas you become. Most of the puzzles are between mate in 2 and mate in 4, although some stretch to mate in 9 (needless to say I have not managed to work through to the finish on those). This is a great book to get your chess brain working and fill idle moments on the train into work. A few puzzles a day and you will soon get the hang of both the book, and checkmating tactics. I would also recommend his book "How to force checkmate" which is also much easier.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This book is one of the best collections of checkmates I have seen. Modestly priced and w/many diagrams it is an excellent buy.
This book does not indulge with alot of nonsense "modern" chess books do. In that there is nothing but diagrams and solutions! The author cuts to the chase and does not idulge in alot of useless verbage all too many books do to today.
In addition the reader doesn't need a board and set with him to read this book!
I read this book when I was bout 1400 stregth and reread it recently (I am currently 2000 strength) and cannot help but enjoy it! I highly recommend it and cannot think of any book which comes close for this topic.
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