Book Description
With their amusing shape, great content, and popular price, these humorous compilations are a must-have on every puzzler's shelf.
Author : Burt Hochberg
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781402714504
With their amusing shape, great content, and popular price, these humorous compilations are a must-have on every puzzler's shelf.
Author : Burt Hochberg
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Chess problems
ISBN : 9781402711459
Author : Charles F. Stubbs
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Chess problems
ISBN :
Author : Richard Palliser
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781857445329
In this book, tactics expert Richard Palliser presents the reader with an enormous 1500 chess puzzles, all checked for accuracy by the latest computer engines. There is something for players of all levels here: many basic tactics forks, pins, skewers and checkmates to appeal to beginners and improvers, and a considerable number of brain-teasers that will tax even the strongest of players."
Author : Emmanuel Neiman
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9056914502
If only real life were like a book on chess tactics! But during a game you are on your own, and nobody will whisper in your ear that you have reached a position that is, in fact, a tactical puzzle and all you have to do is solve it. What you need, discovered Emmanuel Neiman in his long career as a chess trainer, is a way to read the signals which indicate that, somewhere in the position you are looking at, there is a tactical blow. What you need is a Chess Tactics Antenna! This trailblazing book by award-winning author Neiman provides a set of tools that enables the average club player to determine the moment he needs to look for win. ,
Author : László Polgár
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781579125547
Presents a collection of instructional situations and chess moves.
Author : Kenneth S. Howard
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 1961-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486207483
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.
Author : James Rayner
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Chess problems
ISBN :
Author : Chess Akt
Publisher : Chess Akt
Page : 1007 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release :
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
This book of chess problems will certainly be of great benefit to beginners and children. By practicing day after day, they will progress, in a certain way, using the best tactical schemes.
In chess, tactical play is crucial. Any strategy, patiently built, can be instantly ruined by a tactical move. The strategy is a general plan that requires many moves to be realized. On the contrary, the tactic is a short-term operation that contributes to the achievement of the strategy. The tactic usually involves few, but incisive shots. In general, the tactic is for checkmate or material gain. To do this, it often uses attacks such as fork, pinning, deflection, overload, sacrifice, etc. To improve your tactical sense, it is necessary to practice regularly to solve diagrams such as those presented in this series. The following 500 problems are progressive, they should allow you to reach a new level in your progression.
The results of studies on chess are spectacular. In children and also in adults, it improves concentration and problem-solving ability. To do this, the best practice is to solve chess exercises. This is what this book proposes. So, combine the useful with the pleasant!
Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486482014
Join Holmes and Watson as they examine interrupted games to deduce prior moves. A series of increasingly complex chess mysteries culminates in a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty. The master sleuth instructs his companion (and us) in the intricacies of retrograde analysis; readers need only a knowledge of how the pieces move.