200 Demanding Chess Puzzles [Paperback]

Martin Greif (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1996

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 143 pages
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806959770
• ISBN-13: 978-0806959771
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,971,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Puzzles, April 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 200 Demanding Chess Puzzles (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:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Puzzles, Old School Notation, June 1, 2005

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Aadip Desai "Writer/Musician/Comedian" (Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 200 Demanding Chess Puzzles (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.