200 Demanding Chess Puzzles

Book Overview

Try all 200 of these gripping, grueling, and teeth-grating end games in which a checkmate, or mate, is required in two, three, four, or more moves. You are shown the board with pieces in fixed... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806959770
• ISBN13: 9780806959771
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Puzzles, Old School Notation

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.

Good Puzzles

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]