Combination Challenge [Paperback]

Lou Hays (Author), John Hall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1991

A definitive volume of diagrammatic displays of great tactical plays! Will help polish skills to a fine, new degree that will increase enjoyment of the game and opportunity for triumph. Categorizes basic motifs, contains a plethora of instructive examples.

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Review

"The Combination book of the Year" -- Chess Digest, 1991

From the Publisher

Thousands of chess players have improved their game using Combination Challenge! The tactical training method provided in this book WORKS. With 1154 examples, you have a lifetime of material to study and restudy. Pattern recognition is very best method for improving your game and you learn it in Combination Challenge!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 231 pages
• Publisher: Hays Pub (October 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188067386X
• ISBN-13: 978-1880673867
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,136,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best single volume tactics review book available today!, September 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Combination Challenge (Paperback)

I have a chess library of approximately 100 different books covering all aspects of the game of chess.

After years of playing in, and directing tournaments, as well as teaching scholastic level chess- I have concluded that tactics are the most important part of the game of chess. They are also the most exciting! The best part is, you don't have to be born with tactical ability; you can learn it.

By practicing tactics through the method of diagram training you can become a much stronger player.

This book is the best algebraic notation book available on the market today. It is very similar to Reinfeld's 1,001 chess sacrifices and combinations in the old descriptive notation.

It is preferable to solve problems in the notation currently used by a majority of players today because it will transfer to your over the board play and help you visualize the board better.

I would recommend this book strongly for players rated between 1400 and 2000 USCF. Players rated below 1400 would do better to find a more basic book, and players rated above 2000 USCF would do better to find even more advanced books.

P.S. I have no relationship to the author or publisher.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good, but try Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors first, December 1, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Combination Challenge (Paperback)

If your rating is below 1700, try Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors first. It's an edited version of Combination Challenge, but with just 1-3 move problems from that book. It's not in a kiddie format, althought it's a smaller book-- the problems just have fewer moves than Combination Challenge and there aren't as many problems in it. In the forward of Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors it says to do this book 3 times and not to move on to Combination Challenge until you're around USCF 1700.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money, January 2, 1998

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This review is from: Combination Challenge (Paperback)

More than 900 of this book's 1100+ problems appear in Reinfeld's "One Thousand and One Winning Sacrifices and Combinations," also available from Amazon.com. That book is available for approximately half the price of "Combination Challenge," so unless you absolutely cannot handle descriptive notation, buy the original.