- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Sterling; illustrated edition edition (25 July 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0806959770
- ISBN-13: 978-0806959771
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,049,602 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This interactive book allows you to try many end-games in which a checkmate, or mate, is required. Because you are playing as both players, you are forced to play both aggressively and defensively, honing your end-game skills from both sides.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Good Puzzles
9 April 2000
Format:Paperback
There are 200 puzzles (chessboard diagrams with the pieces strategically placed). You are told how many moves are needed for the White chess pieces to earn a "mate" over the Black pieces, and then (of course) you attempt to solve the puzzle by figuring out which moves it will take to accomplish the feat. Some of these puzzles are easier than others.
The solutions are listed in the back of the book. Many of the puzzles have more than one solution, and when this is the case, the author uses asterisks and footnotes listing possible alternative solutions.
I suppose this book could have been better if there were brief discussions of the solutions, but in all fairness to the author, that's not a realistic expecation for a chess puzzle book -- especially for a book with 200 puzzles (if you like that type of didactic commentary, read chess manuals with plenty of examples).
modified Descriptive (English) notation. [EN]
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great Puzzles, Old School Notation
1 Jun 2005
Format:Paperback
This book has really great puzzles, but if you are used to algebraic notation, you might be a little slow to conceive the solutions section (I was). Teach yourself descriptive notation to make the best of this book.
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