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Title: Combinations: The Heart of Chess by Irving Chernev ISBN: 0-486-21744-2 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1967 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good primer on chess tactics.
Comment: I once walked into a used bookstore in Atlanta, and found like 12 copies of this book sitting on the shelf. They only wanted a buck or so each, so I bought them all.
I was teaching chess at that time at a private school in Pensacola, The Creative Learning Center.
I gave most of those 12 books to my students. They enjoyed them tremendously.
If a student wanted to ask me what book should be his "First" book on tactics, I would probably whole-heartedly endorse this book. 'Nuff said?
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant, Inexpensive, Effective History, Good Training.
Comment: Chernev's classic is not simply a collection of combinations for drilling yourself on pins, forks, smothered mates, and so on - although there are plenty of combinations (300+) for that - it shows how the great players used them in their games. You get a history lesson while learning how Tarrasch, Nimzovich, Capablanca, and many other world-class players, employed combinations in their games. I like how Chernev uses extended game fragments and his own enthusiastic commentary to explain the combinations. I have several tactics books and I enjoyed Chernev's less common approach to combinations: most books just give the position as though it just "appeared" out of the blue to settle the game. Somehow with Chernev, I get the idea that you have to work to get there. Descriptive notation.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is one of THE books on chess tactics
Comment: Learn from the examples-- good and bad -- from the masters from Anderssen to Fischer, simple and complex, short and long, how to master piece co-ordination. A classic. Check out Chess Life and Review April 1975 p. 245 col 1 wrt #69. Working through this book can add hundreds of points to an average tournament players' rating, whet his appetite and keep him off the street for days... Not just for beginners, the 356 positions on 240 pages although not their primary source nor a dry categorical treatise, will challenge delight edify and entertain an interesting reader for years...
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Title: Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev ISBN: 0486273024 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 06 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition by Irving Chernev ISBN: 0713484640 Publisher: B.T. Batsford Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: One Thousand and One Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations by Reinfeld ISBN: 0879801115 Publisher: Wilshire Book Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1969 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate by Fred Reinfeld ISBN: 0879801107 Publisher: Wilshire Book Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1971 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Art of Sacrifice in Chess by Rudolf Spielmann, Fred Reinfeld, I. A. Horowitz ISBN: 0486284492 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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