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Title: 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate by Fred Reinfeld ISBN: 0-87980-110-7 Publisher: Wilshire Book Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1971 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: I really believe that this book is excellent. It sharpens your tactical ability by providing puzzles to solve. The best thing that I like about this book is that Reinfeld doesn't tell you what to do! No useless crap, just puzzles and solutions in the back. He gives basic outlines in each chapter (attacking the castled position etc.), but besides that you're on your own. I would recommend that anyone wishing to improve tactical ability buy this book. I would however not recommend this to complete beginners, some solutions are difficult and may contain tactics not known to a beginner. First buy Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics. The only problem with the book is the antiquated descriptive notation, it's easy to learn however I found it sometimes annoying.
Rating: 5
Summary: Important and indispensable
Comment: Pattern recognition is a very important skill in chess both for attack and defense. This book drills in this very matter testing your ability to recognize a pattern and to calculate the variations leading to checkmate.
I solved each and every puzzle in this book and I can honestly say that the skills gathered were put to the test almost inmediately: I was engineering simple checkmates and executing them over the board after reading the book.
Objectively speaking the problems range of difficulty varies a lot. Some of the problems are as simple as calculating a mate in one while others require you to find a ten moves solution. Is this good? Sure it is! A plain diagram with the words "white (or black) to move" not telling you how long is your path to victory is in my opinion the best way to train tactics. [In fact, I would say that Reinfeld should not even divide the material in themes like queen sacrifice, attack to the uncastled king, etc.]
A single pass over Reinfeld's problems is just not enough and the book demands a second or even third "reading." Why? Because it will save time and suffering in actual games...
In any case I wholeheartedly recommend this book
Rating: 1
Summary: terrible binding
Comment: When I read another review saying how bad the binding was, I thought they were exaggerating. However, as soon as I started thumbing through it, the first four pages started falling out! Nice exercises, but I returned it b/c I know that I will not be able to use it with the pages so loose.
Maybe you get what you pay for. The more expensive "Sharpen Your Tactics" by Lein is much more sturdy, though also much more difficult and not solely focused on mating threats.
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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: Art of Attack in Chess by Vladimir Vukovic ISBN: 1857444000 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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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: How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course by Jeremy Silman, Siles Press ISBN: 1890085006 Publisher: Siles Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess) by Yasser Seirawan ISBN: 1857443330 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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