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Title: World Champion Combinations by Raymond Keene, Eric Schiller ISBN: 0-940685-77-9 Publisher: Cardoza Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: For advanced players only
Comment: I would reason that anyone who is critical of this book because they tell you that the tactics are too easy is probably covering up for the fact that the combinations in this book are way too deep and advanced for the player rated below 1800 elo. This is a book for advanced players who already know tactics and want to explore some 10-move deep combinations by players such as Botvinnik, Tal, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Smyslov, Lasker, Alekhine, Capablanca. If these players ever made a "weak" combination that was meant for the 900 rated player as another reviewer below claims, then they must have been playing chess on another planet. Here on Earth the best games from the best players get published, not 900 rated junk for the weak club player. This is a high-quality games collection for the Class A tournament player. Again I say that anyone who tells you this book is for weak players is a very weak player himself trying to bad-mouth a book that he finds too difficult to comprehend.

Rating: 4
Summary: Grandmaster-level tactics
Comment: This is a book on combinations, which are much more complicated than simple tactics. All of the combinations are taken from World Champion players, featuring 84 complete games from the years 1880-1998.
I very much like the mix of games in this book from the past 100 years- there are some classic games here including very famous games by Lasker and Spassky, as well as some excellent combinations from some more obscure recent games by Kasparov, and one of the games taken from the Fischer-Spassky rematch in 1992. A really diverse mix of strictly tactical games taken from the best players in the history of the game of chess. This book is a real bargain. I have a lot of chess books but this one is one of the best- a couple other chess books I like are Gligoric's "new" book I Play Against The Pieces, and Karpov's Best Games (Batsford 1997)

Rating: 2
Summary: Not Worth it
Comment: This book is simply not worth it if, of course, you're not under 900. I got the book for free, so it didn't really matter with me, however, the tactics in the book are very elementrary, so I would not have payed more than five dollars on it. I learned nothing more from this book on combinations than I did in any other beginner's chess book