It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles (Everyman Chess) [Paperback]

Chris Ward (Author)

Book Description

Series: Everyman Chess | Publication Date: January 1, 2004

Feeling up to a challenge? In this highly original and instructive self-test book, Grandmaster Chris Ward presents a selection of carefully chosen puzzles to solve. Hot on the heels of his very successful It's Your Move and Improvers It's Your Move, comes It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles, which this time aims to rack the brains of even the most experienced chess players.
The puzzles might be a bit more difficult this time but, in the same style of the previous two books, the reader is once again helped by the choice of five plausible plans and has to decide which is the most likely to succeed. The answers then identify the most promising plan and explain why the other choices are less attractive. Instead of opting for the traditional 'check, check, mate ... mate!' type of puzzles, Ward concentrates on situations which are much more likely to occur in practical games.

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Feeling up to a challenge?
In this highly original and instructive test yourself book, Grandmaster Chris Ward presents a selection of carefully chosen puzzles for you to solve. Hot on the heels of his very successful It's Your Move and Improvers It's Your Move, comes It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles, which this time aims to rack the brains of even the most experienced chess players.
The puzzles might be a bit more difficult this time but, in the same style of the previous two books, the reader is once again helped by the choice of five plausible plans and has to decide which is the most likely to succeed. The answers then identify the most promising plan and explain why the other choices are less attractive. Instead of opting for the traditional 'check, check, mate ... mate!' type of puzzles, Ward concentrates on situations which are much more likely to occur in practical games.

About the Author

Chris Ward is a Grandmaster and a former British Champion. He is an experienced chess coach and writer, and lives in the UK.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Everyman Chess; 1st edition (January 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857443411
• ISBN-13: 978-1857443417
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,105,634 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars after just 2 questions, December 22, 2006

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This review is from: It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles (Everyman Chess) (Paperback)

after just 2 questions i'm disappointed.
My initial fide rating is 2017.
i've started with the 1st question in a waiting room, and i found the correct answer immediately (but didn't check if it was the right one). It was a strategic question. Then i go home, i put the position on the board, and after a long analysis i found that another answer, a tactical one, was strategically wrong but it wins too. The author think that this winning move is the worse of them all, becouse it's strategically wrong. This is really questionable.
In the second question i have another surprise. The first choice of the author is ok, but the second (tied) loose some advantage, and it looks weaker than 4th choice.
I know that it's not easy to put in order 5 choice in a won position, but i was expecting something more from the book, since there are just 50 questions.