200 Classic Chess Puzzles [Paperback]

Martin Greif (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 1993

It's up to you to determine how to take the King in a given number of moves. Find Pawn, Rook and Pawn, Queen, Queen and Pawn, Bishop and Pawn, and minor piece endings to help you practice for the real thing. You'll be lured into playing games that are full of challenges, and if you're stumped, the solutions appear in the back!

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806904623
• ISBN-13: 978-0806904627
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,196,544 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Brainteasers!, March 28, 2000

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Lee F. Bonaldi (Warwick, RI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 200 Classic Chess Puzzles (Paperback)

I recently purchased a chess set on Amazon.com. I wanted to re-learn the game and its different nuances. What a better way than trying to solve these puzzles! These puzzles focus primarily on the end-game, and you have to make the moves for both white and black. If you want to improve your chess game, I would recommend that this be one of the first places you stop.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Descriptive notation, no credits, and inferior diagrams, September 11, 2005

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MCSD for Microsoft .Net (Atlanta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 200 Classic Chess Puzzles (Paperback)

I have a moderately sized chess library (100+ books), and this work is one of my least favorites. Besides having descriptive (i.e., old, non-algebraic) notation, the puzzle collection suffers from numerous other problems. The positions often appear composed rather than naturally occurring, and no credit is given regarding who created the puzzles to be solved. Further, the print quality of the diagrams is sub par, which means that solving the problems straight from the book isn't as easy as it should be. Overall, this book is quite a disappointment. I recommend that you pick up another tactics book for middlegame or endgame practice.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too artificial to be helpful, May 11, 2008

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C. L. Hinkle "chuckbo" (Bellaire, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 200 Classic Chess Puzzles (Paperback)

I just can't recommend this book -- I have not found it useful for myself and certainly would not use it to get problems for my students. The problem I see is that all of the positions are contrived and unnatural -- they aren't positions that would occur naturally -- so it doesn't improve your pattern-recognition ability. I don't believe that what you learn here translates to real games.

I don't know what to do with my copy of the book. I can't use it, but I don't want to resell it or give it away since I believe it's so unhelpful.