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200 Demanding Chess Puzzles

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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]

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.