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CHESS PUZZLE BOOKS
Chess Puzzles for Students
This is a quiz based on very hard puzzles taken from master games, not from composed problems. Because of the difficulty and complexity of the puzzles, you score points just for getting the first move right. You do not have to see all the way to the end. At the end of the quizzes, you are rated based on how many you got right.
Chess Puzzles for Students
The Complete Chess Workout II
Another 1200 Puzzles to Train Your Brain
Another 1200 Puzzles to Train Your Brain
It’s time to start your chess training! This is the eagerly awaited follow-up to The Complete Chess Workout, Richard Palliser’s highly acclaimed chess puzzle book. Now he presents the reader with 1200 new puzzles, every one checked for accuracy by the latest computer engines.
All top chess players agree that to keep your tactical muscles in shape it’s imperative to continue training, and the easiest and most fun way to do this is by performing tactical exercises
All top chess players agree that to keep your tactical muscles in shape it’s imperative to continue training, and the easiest and most fun way to do this is by performing tactical exercises
The Complete Chess Workout II
Another 1200 Puzzles to Train Your Brain
Chess Puzzles for Kids
100 Puzzles to Torment Your Brain Cells
100 Puzzles to Torment Your Brain Cells
This chess puzzle super-challenge contains 100 fun positions to solve, ranging from encouragingly easy to mind-numbingly hard.
Chess Puzzles for Kids
100 Puzzles to Torment Your Brain Cells
Win at Chess
New Algebraic Edition
New Algebraic Edition
The 300 practical chess problems included here, taken from actual tournament play, contain scores of traps, sacrifices, mates, winning combinations, and subtle exchanges that will help sharpen players' eyes and test their skills against the masters.
Win at Chess
New Algebraic Edition
The Gambit Book of Instructive Chess Puzzles
Improve Your Chess with These 300 Carefully Selected Puzzles
Improve Your Chess with These 300 Carefully Selected Puzzles
There is something here for everyone. The puzzles in the first two chapters are based on a clear-cut tactic or checkmate, such as those explained in Gambit's best-sellers How to Beat Your Dad at Chess and Chess Tactics for Kids. The endgame challenges highlight tactics and principles in action. In practice it is vital to defend resiliently and seek counterattacking chances – there is an innovative chapter on these rarely-covered themes as well as puzzles where the reader must decide how to punch home an attack.
The Gambit Book of Instructive Chess Puzzles
Improve Your Chess with These 300 Carefully Selected Puzzles
Tactimania
Find the Winning Combination
Find the Winning Combination
Tacticmania is a puzzle book with a difference. Grandmaster Glenn Flear makes sure the puzzles are unfamiliar to the reader by selecting them only from games played by himself or his wife Christine. The puzzles start at a moderate level then get steadily more difficult. The reader will be challenged by the puzzles and entertained by the manga-style illustrations that feature throughout.
Tactimania
Find the Winning Combination
212 Surprising Checkmates
With this instructive manual, players can learn to concentrate on one-, two- and three-move checkmates, focusing on their opponents' last moves and keeping alert to new possibilities, rather than getting blinded by previous calculations. Written by two experienced chess teachers, this volumes first 100 exercises concern checkmates in one move, while the remaining exercises represent game-like positions for checkmates in two and three moves.
212 Surprising Checkmates
10 Most Common Chess Mistakes
And How to Avoid Them!
And How to Avoid Them!
A fascinating collection of more than two hundred typical errors committed by the world's greatest players challenges you to test your skills by choosing between two moves: the right one, or the one actually played. You will be amazed at how even world champions make errors in critical situations and violate the basic principles of chess.
10 Most Common Chess Mistakes
And How to Avoid Them!
1001 Deadly Checkmates
Solve the Puzzles and Measure Your Skill!
Solve the Puzzles and Measure Your Skill!
For all chess-players, from beginners to world champions, from kids to seniors, delivering checkmate is the greatest thrill the game has to offer. The ability to spot checkmates is a vital skill - and this easy-to-use book shows you how it is done. With the help of Grandmaster John Nunn, you will be ready to shock your next opponent with a deadly checkmate, whether in a school match, a club tournament - or even a championship game!
1001 Deadly Checkmates
Solve the Puzzles and Measure Your Skill!
The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 3
Test and Improve Your Defensive Skill
Test and Improve Your Defensive Skill
One of the most important skills a chessplayer needs is the ability to defend a position that is under siege. In this third volume in the highly acclaimed, best-selling ChessCafe Puzzle Book series, International Grandmaster Karsten Mueller, along with International Master Merijn van Delft, examines and expounds upon the vital defensive concepts and techniques used to repulse enemy attacks.
The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 3
Test and Improve Your Defensive Skill
Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids - VOLUME 2
Winning Chess Puzzles For Kids Volume 2 is a fun and instructive workbook for children ages 7 to 13. Full of imaginative drawings, it combines standard chess problems with a variety of insightful chess-related puzzles. Slightly more advanced than Volume 1, its aim is to further develop a student's tactical skills.
Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids - VOLUME 2
Chess Training Pocket Book
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 6
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 6
This newly revised volume in the successful Comprehensive Chess Course sharpens and tightens your game through examination and study of the 300 most important chess game positions. The most important and instructive positions over the last 100 years arranged as challenges, with illuminating explanations and solutions.
Chess Training Pocket Book
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 6
The Giant Chess Puzzle Book
1001 Brand New Chess Puzzles to Challenge and Entertain Players from Novices to Grandmasters
1001 Brand New Chess Puzzles to Challenge and Entertain Players from Novices to Grandmasters
Tactical skills are paramount in chess. More than anything else, a player's ability to find tactical solutions determines how successful he is over-the-board. No endgame scheme, opening idea or strategic plan, however brilliant a concept it may be, is of any value unless it is accurately calculated and implemented.
The best way to develop tactical skills is to practice them by tackling new and challenging positions. This book provides a wealth of chess puzzles to test just about every facet of your tactical ability. It is very unlikely that even those who have read many other chess puzzle books will recognize more than a handful of these positions. Franco has searched recent events and used powerful computers to seek out previously unpublished puzzles, and has also drawn extensively upon Latin American sources that he has been scouring for brilliant examples over the last three decades.
Following the pattern of Gambit's hugely successful Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book (by John Emms), the book begins with 100 relatively easy positions suitable for novices, and ends with 100 extremely tough puzzles, which provide a mind-bending challenge even for grandmasters. There are 1001 puzzles in all, including themed sections and graded tests, all with detailed computer-verified solutions and verbal explanations of the main instructive points.
The best way to develop tactical skills is to practice them by tackling new and challenging positions. This book provides a wealth of chess puzzles to test just about every facet of your tactical ability. It is very unlikely that even those who have read many other chess puzzle books will recognize more than a handful of these positions. Franco has searched recent events and used powerful computers to seek out previously unpublished puzzles, and has also drawn extensively upon Latin American sources that he has been scouring for brilliant examples over the last three decades.
Following the pattern of Gambit's hugely successful Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book (by John Emms), the book begins with 100 relatively easy positions suitable for novices, and ends with 100 extremely tough puzzles, which provide a mind-bending challenge even for grandmasters. There are 1001 puzzles in all, including themed sections and graded tests, all with detailed computer-verified solutions and verbal explanations of the main instructive points.
The Giant Chess Puzzle Book
1001 Brand New Chess Puzzles to Challenge and Entertain Players from Novices to Grandmasters
The Quality Chess Puzzle Book
The Quality Chess Puzzle Book starts with less difficult thematic combinations, then moves on to various scenarios where tactics arise such as in Endgames, Defence, Positions with Pawn Promotions and even the games of Vassily Ivanchuk, before ending with the appropriately named Brain Crushers, where the reader's challenge is made more realistic by puzzles where the crash-bang-wallop moment is a few moves in the future.
The Quality Chess Puzzle Book
Solitaire Chess
Match Your Wits Against the Greatest Chess Masters
Match Your Wits Against the Greatest Chess Masters
This book enables the average chess player to match wits against the greatest masters of all time. The result is a book that is as instructive as it is entertaining.
Solitaire Chess
Match Your Wits Against the Greatest Chess Masters
John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book
Test and Improve your Over-the-Board Decision Making
Test and Improve your Over-the-Board Decision Making
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.
John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book
Test and Improve your Over-the-Board Decision Making
Pawn Mower - VOLUME 1
The Addictive New Puzzle ANYONE Can Solve
The Addictive New Puzzle ANYONE Can Solve
Publisher: Ashley Parr, LLC
Author: Maurice Ashley
Year of Publication: 2009 Pages: 128
Notation Type: Figurine (FN)
Book Description The Addictive New Puzzle Anyone Can Solve! Pawn Mower's Inaugural edition. Volume 1 begins with a series of easy puzzles for newbies and progresses gradually to mind benders brain buster puzzles that will challenge even the most seasoned puzzle veteran. About the Author(s) Maurice Ashley is known as the Tiger Woods of Chess. He made history when he became the first African-American to attain the coveted title of International Grandmaster of Chess in 1999. He has been an ardent spokesman and advocate of the intellectual and character building effects of chess in young people for over 15 years. GM Ashley is the world's premier and live chess commentator for ESPN. He is a renowned speaker and consultant who has spoken to several universities and professional organizations nationally.
Pawn Mower - VOLUME 1
The Addictive New Puzzle ANYONE Can Solve
606 Puzzles for Chess Nuts
Official MENSAﾬ Puzzle Book
Official MENSAﾬ Puzzle Book
For the true chess nut, the 64 squares of the chessboard represent a world of imaginative possibilities, where a bright idea can make the difference between triumph and destruction, victory and defeat. Each of these puzzles re-creates that world, putting the reader into a realistic game position with the tantalizing challenge of finding that elusive winning idea.
606 Puzzles for Chess Nuts
Official MENSAﾬ Puzzle Book
Chess Training Pocket Book II
320 Key Positions for Players of All Levels
320 Key Positions for Players of All Levels
This book sharpens your game through examining 320 of the most important chess positions taken from games over the last 120 years. Organized by difficulty to aid players in preparing for their own competitive games, the book features instructive explanations, solutions, and tips conveniently displayed on facing pages.
Chess Training Pocket Book II
320 Key Positions for Players of All Levels
Chess Cafe Puzzle Book 2
As most chess instructors and players know, it is much more difficult to teach and learn strategic concepts than tactics. In this program, German grandmaster Dr. Karsten Mueller will help you develop your strategic chessplaying skills.
Chess Cafe Puzzle Book 2
Jon Speelman's Chess Puzzle Book
Jon Speelman is one of the most successful British chess-players of all time, and is renowned for the creativity of his play and his remarkable calculating ability. He is also an extremely experienced writer and chess coach. His personal selection of chess puzzles will infuriate, entertain, test and instruct chess-players of all levels.
Jon Speelman's Chess Puzzle Book
Practical Chess Exercises
600 Lessons from Tactics to Strategy
600 Lessons from Tactics to Strategy
This book will sharpen your tactical vision, deepen your positional understanding, and enrich your knowledge of theoretical positions.
Practical Chess Exercises
600 Lessons from Tactics to Strategy
Pandolfini's Chess Challenges
111 Winning Endgames
111 Winning Endgames
Here are 111 quirky, surprising and fun tactical chess problems to improve anyone's games. Designed to promote creativity and imaginative play, all of the problems are endgame miniatures, with seven or fewer pieces on the chessboard.
Pandolfini's Chess Challenges
111 Winning Endgames
The Complete Chess Workout
Train Your Brain with 1200 Puzzles!
Train Your Brain with 1200 Puzzles!
All top chess players agree that to keep your tactical muscles in shape it's imperative to continue training, and the easiest and most fun way to do this is by performing tactical exercises. Even solving a few puzzles for ten minutes each day can be of the utmost benefit for the aspiring player. But where can one find the required number of suitable puzzles to satisfy this demand?
The Complete Chess Workout
Train Your Brain with 1200 Puzzles!
303 More Tricky Chess Puzzles
303 More Challenging Puzzles to Take On!
303 More Challenging Puzzles to Take On!
A carefully selected entertaining and instructive collection of tactical chess puzzles. The authors, both veteran professional chess instructors, have collected or created 303 additional game situations, to go with the original 303 typical situations featured in the original 303 Tricky Chess Puzzles.
303 More Tricky Chess Puzzles
303 More Challenging Puzzles to Take On!
Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids
Winning Chess Puzzles For Kids is the perfect introduction to basic chess tactics for children ages 7 to 13. Full of imaginative drawings, this fun and instructive workbook combines standard chess problems with a variety of insightful chess-related puzzles.
Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids
1 Move Checkmates
200 Instructive and Challenging Mates for Beginners!
200 Instructive and Challenging Mates for Beginners!
This great book for beginning players covers the most basic of all mates - the one move mate! Schiller presents different game positions where you must find the move that instantly wins the game. You'll learn how to make the final move with all the pieces - knights, bishops, rooks, pawns, queens and even the king. This great training tool is perfect for players new to the game of chess!
1 Move Checkmates
200 Instructive and Challenging Mates for Beginners!
Test your Chess with Daniel King
Assess your chess strength with this test-yourself guide. In this instructive and entertaining book, based on the author's Chess Monthly column, Grandmaster Daniel King invites you to sit alongside the leading players in the world and predict their moves.
Test your Chess with Daniel King
303 Tricky Chess Puzzles
Find the Decisive Winning Moves!
Find the Decisive Winning Moves!
303 Tricky Chess Puzzles
Find the Decisive Winning Moves!
Beat the Grandmasters
Can you Rise to the Challenge?
Can you Rise to the Challenge?
This book pits readers against the grandmasters by placing them in real-game situations where there is a way to defeat a well-known player. Your task is to find the moves which lead to the defeat of some of the strongest players in the world. Quite often one move can change the course of the game, and calculating with precision at the right moment can mean the difference between winning and losing. Even if you have had a lost position for a long time, you may suddenly get the chance to turn things around if your opponent drops his guard for a moment.
Beat the Grandmasters
Can you Rise to the Challenge?
Chess Self-Improvement
Assess and Improve Your Chess Strength
Assess and Improve Your Chess Strength
Zenon Franco guides readers through 50 top-level games, challenges them to guess key moves correctly, and poses questions at critical moments. Points are awarded for good answers, and at the end of each game, a score-chart rates the reader's performance. This material has never appeared in the English language before, and represents the pick of monthly articles that Franco has written for a quarter of a century in Spanish-language magazines, revised and rechecked for this book.
Chess Self-Improvement
Assess and Improve Your Chess Strength
202 Checkmates For Children
A Fun and Instructive Workbook for Childred Serious about Chess!
A Fun and Instructive Workbook for Childred Serious about Chess!
Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to children, present 202 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill kids as they work their way through the concepts while they have fun with chess. This book is perfect for kids!
202 Checkmates For Children
A Fun and Instructive Workbook for Childred Serious about Chess!
Chess Cafe Puzzle Book
This book offers every type of tactical motif imaginable, from the more common back rank mates, pins, skewers, forks and the like up to and including some of the most beautiful and rare combinations. This is a tactical book that will prove exceptionally useful for a wide range of players, intermediate through master strength and even beyond.
Chess Cafe Puzzle Book
Chess Mazes
The planning and visualization skills that come from working on Chess Mazes are valuable and instructive. If you are one who often loses games by hanging pieces or missing mates, then this is the book for you. There are many good books which present chess combinations and explain tactical motifs with the goal of training your tactical ability.
Chess Mazes
How Good Is Your Chess?
Rate Yourself in 100 Positions
Rate Yourself in 100 Positions
Grandmaster and Hall of Fame chess legend Larry Evans draws upon his vast experience as five-time U.S. champion to present a fun and challenging new approach for chess players. You can test your skills against one hundred fascinating positions from actual games and choose the best move among three choices.
How Good Is Your Chess?
Rate Yourself in 100 Positions
Sit and Solve Chess Problems
These abbreviated, two-move problems will help chess players sharpen their mind and improve their game. In every one, White has already made its first move, and it's up to the puzzler to figure out Black's defenses and the mating moves that refute them.
Sit and Solve Chess Problems
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