How to Solve Chess Problems

How to Solve Chess Problems
Title How to Solve Chess Problems PDF eBook
Author Kenneth S. Howard
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 198
Release 1961-01-01
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN 9780486207483

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58 two-move problems, 46 three-movers, and eight four-movers composed during the last 30 years and illustrative of the best work of 27 outstanding American problem composers. The author has included practical suggestions for solving each problem, an explanation of common terms and an exhaustive index. Invaluable for any player, even beginners interested in problems.

Chess

Chess
Title Chess PDF eBook
Author László Polgár
Publisher Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages 0
Release 2013-08-13
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN 9781579129507

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Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book.. More than 6,000 illustrations make it easy to see the possibilities regardless of where your pieces are on the board. The book also includes the basic rules of the game and an international bibliography. Chess is the ultimate book on winning the game.

Solving in Style

Solving in Style
Title Solving in Style PDF eBook
Author John Nunn
Publisher Gambit Publications
Pages 260
Release 2002
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN

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In this book, John Nunn, a top-class grandmaster who is also one of the world's finest solvers, explains the methods by which chess problems and studies are solved. The logical and creative methods advocated, while targeted at the solving of composed positions, may also help players find startling tactical solutions in their games. Solving in Style also constitutes an entertaining and insightful introduction to the world of problems and studies. There are chapters on series problems and other unorthodox stipulations, and also a discussion of specific themes such as the Novotny interference. This classic text is one of few on this important subject, and is now available again, having been difficult to obtain for a decade. Chess positions for solving are as old as the game itself, and provide stimulating and beneficial exercise for chess-players. However, while there is an abundance of books on chess puzzles, and much specialist literature on studies and problems, there is an astonishing dearth of guidance for solvers.

John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book

John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book
Title John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book PDF eBook
Author John Nunn
Publisher Gambit Publications
Pages 342
Release 2009
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN

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Most chess puzzle books put you in an artificial situation: you are told a combination exists, what the theme is and what you are required to achieve. This one is different. In a real game, a player may sometimes need to find a combination. On the other hand he may have to reject a tactical idea and simply find a good positional move. His task is to find the right move, whatever it may be. The 300 puzzles in this book put you precisely in that situation. Spectacular ideas abound in these positions, but it is for you to decide whether to go in for them, or whether you would be falling into a trap. If you need them, there are hints to help you on your way. The book ends with a series of tests to measure your skills against those of other players. For this new edition, John Nunn, a top-class grandmaster and a solving world champion, has added 50 new puzzles (with hints and detailed solutions) to test your skills to the full. For ease of following, extra diagrams have been added to the solutions throughout. Overall the book is 60 per cent bigger than the first edition.

Back to Basics: Tactics

Back to Basics: Tactics
Title Back to Basics: Tactics PDF eBook
Author Dan Heisman
Publisher SCB Distributors
Pages 429
Release 2011-02-02
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN 1936490145

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Chess Tactics Can Be Fun! This book is an introduction to the various kinds of basic chess tactics. With instructional material, examples, and problems of all types, the subject of chess tactics is covered comprehensively. There are approximately 500 examples ranging from too easy to very difficult! Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun! This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about - and benefiting from - the recurring patterns of tactics. It is well established that the study of basic tactics is probably the single most important thing any beginner can do to improve at chess. This book will help you do that!

Advanced Chess Problems and How to Solve Them

Advanced Chess Problems and How to Solve Them
Title Advanced Chess Problems and How to Solve Them PDF eBook
Author B. P. Barnes
Publisher Lyons Press
Pages 0
Release 2003-08
Genre Chess
ISBN 9781585747597

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An illustrated guide to solving some of the world's toughest chess problems.

Quality Chess Puzzle Book

Quality Chess Puzzle Book
Title Quality Chess Puzzle Book PDF eBook
Author John Shaw
Publisher Quality Chess
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre Chess
ISBN 9781906552121

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When I decided to make a chess puzzle book I had many ideas in mind: The puzzles should be challenging but not so difficult that a chessboard is needed they can be solved on the train, plane or wherever you happen to be when you have a few minutes to spare. The positions should be educational with some instructive point to the solution. I have generally stuck to that, but I also selected many puzzles just because they were fun. The positions are all from fairly recent games, so that the reader will not have seen them before in older puzzle books. John Shaw is a chess grandmaster who has been Scottish Chess Champion three times.