One Thousand and One Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations

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Thereby, adding to your knowledge, to make you a strong chessplayer, and finally, to delight you with some of the most beautiful moves ever played. minutes a day makes a good daily regimen and is virtually guaranteed to improve your play and your rating. A lot of them don't have one solution, but several, and a lot of them should definitely not have been in such a collecton at all. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

There are so many opportunities in chess missed or overlooked because of the blind valuation of the pieces, and this really helps you see past materialism to win in apparently even sutuations. if anyone has ever run 1001 through an engine; or can address whether you they make more sense when you are a tactics superhero- I'm interested.Most difficult are the examples that run seven moves and more; some of these may even stump an ordinary master.

The next day I put it in an engine and it said after Bxf7 Black would even be a tiny bit better with Nxf7 and not Rxf7 which would be a blunder. Would be interested to hear how The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book, and its sibling, The Giant Chess Puzzle Book (both with 1000 puzzles) compare to the Reifeld books if anyone knows. If you have an e-book such as Kindle, you might want to look into "Tactics Time" by Tim Brennan and Anthea Carson, which I wrote about in another thread. there's some gems in their for sure, very strong and unexpected combinations- and a few that are like ?The book predates computer checking, and the solutions are often not the only way of winning, and are sometimes incorrect. Two books that I would recommend are "Chessercizes" by Bruce Pandolfini, and "Chess Tactics for Students" by John Bain. This classic problem book by Master Reinfeld is an well-organized and excellent set of problems for beginner to advanced intermediate players. Test Your Tactical Ability" by Neishtadt is somewhat more difficult than Reinfeld, and also excellent if you can find a copy. and I get in more trouble for playing 'it almost works'; that kind of guessing is good for puzzles and a awful habit for games.