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Title: Combination Challenge by Lou Hays, John Hall ISBN: 1-880673-86-X Publisher: Hays Pub Pub. Date: October, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good, but try Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors first
Comment: If your rating is below 1700, try Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors first. It's an edited version of Combination Challenge, but with just 1-3 move problems from that book. It's not in a kiddie format, althought it's a smaller book-- the problems just have fewer moves than Combination Challenge and there aren't as many problems in it. In the forward of Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors it says to do this book 3 times and not to move on to Combination Challenge until you're around USCF 1700.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Training Book for Practicing Tactics
Comment: This is an excellent training book for practicing tactics. There are over 1,110 diagrams sorted by theme; pins, forks, skewers, overloading, back rank weakness, Queen Sacrifices, etc.
This is not a primer. Beofre tackling this book you should read an introductory tactics book such as "Winning Chess Tactics" by GM Seirawan.
Once you are acquainted with all of the different themes, use this book for further practice.
There are enough diagrams to keep you busy for months (even years).
The intended audience for this book is most likely players rated between around 1400-2000 USCF.
The main beef that some of the other reviewers seem to have is that the book contains most of the same problems as Reinfelds "1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations". My response is "so what?". If you are comfortable with descriptive notation then buy that book. But for those folks who either don't know descriptive notation, or who actually prefer solving problems in algebraic notation then this is your book.
As far as the occasional error or ambiguity in a few solutions - I'm sorry but I have not seen a tactics book that is completely free of these errors. This book is no exception.
Overall, you would be hard-pressed to find a better tactics review book.
Rating: 1
Summary: not worth the money
Comment: I looked forward to getting this book. Imagine my regret when I found out that most of the positions in this book come from Fred Reinfelds combination books such as 1001 combinations and sacrifices. I thought I was getting a book that would offer ORIGINAL material. If the book was original this book would be a sure classic, but its nothing of the kind. I gave the book to charity and hopefully some good will come out of it. I should have listened to the previous reviewer about saving your money. If you want combination books Reinfelds are the best. Read his chess books and you will see why he was an early inductee to the chess hall of fame. He was an original and not taking material from other writers.
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Title: Endgame Challenge by Hall, John Hall ISBN: 1880673983 Publisher: Hays Pub Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Sharpen Your Tactics by Anatoly Lein, Boris Archangelsky, Lou Hays ISBN: 1880673134 Publisher: Hays Pub Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player by Sam Palatnik, Lev Alburt, Roman Pelts, Larry Parr, Jami Anson ISBN: 1889323020 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors by Hays, Lou Hays ISBN: 1880673932 Publisher: Hays Pub Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Art of Attack: Rev. Algebraic Ed. by Vladimir Vukovic ISBN: 1857444000 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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