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Main Menu Home Online Chess Chess Software Theory General Sites Openings [A00 - A99] Openings [B00 - B99] Openings [C00 - C99] Openings [D00 - D99] Openings [E00 - E99] Middlegame Endgame    Puzzle Archive Chess Games Database Online Databases Chess Archeology Chess Links Chess Books Chess Events Play Chess Fide Ratings Banners Chess Puzzles for the Casual Player, Volume 1 by Kevin Houston http://www.chesspuzzlebook.com/ Editorial Review: Chess puzzles for the Casual Player, Vol. 1 contains 50 highly instructive puzzles illustrated by 776 move by move diagrams. Each puzzle contains two parts. First, you are shown a move that may seem good but is actually bad and asked how to take advantage of it. Second, you are asked what a better move would have been in the first place. This two part puzzle training technique helps you learn how to take advantage of opponents' blunders and also how to avoid them yourself. The positions come from real games between average casual players. Every solution is generated and verified by sophisticated professional chess analysis software. The solution to every puzzle is fully illustrated, and explained with easy to understand text. by Bruce Albertson Publicatiion Date: October 2004 Editorial Review: A great puzzle book to encourage the development of chess visualization. The planning and visualization skills taught here translate directly to over-the-board chess and have many other applications as well, for players and instructors alike. Bruce Alberston is an experienced chess instructor and author of many books on chess for beginning and intermediate players. He lives in NYC. By Barden, Leonard Publication Date: 15 November 2002 Editorial Review: For nearly half a century Leonard Barden has delighted readers of his newspaper columns with his chess puzzles, taken from both the world of chess composition and practical play. Here he presents the best of these v hundreds of brain-teasers designed for all levels of player and classified under such themes as Novice corner, Knockouts in one, Checkmates in two, Practical opening traps, Learn from the champions Spot the blunder, Strategic chess, Endgame challenges, Touch nuts, and Party tricks. Problem of the Week - Archive Problem of the Week # 62 Black to move and win SOLUTION 15... b5 16. Bd3 Qb4+ 0-1 (16. Bxb5 Bxb5 17.Qxb5 Rab8 -+) Naranja - Portisch (1970) Problem of the Week # 63 White to move and win SOLUTION 52. Qh3 1-0 Byrne - Tarjan (1975) Problem of the Week # 64 White to move and win SOLUTION 22.Qd4+ Kc8 23.Be6+ Kb8 24.Nd7+ Kc8 25.Nc5+ Kb8 26.Na6+ bxa6 27.Qb4# M. Chigorin - M. Davidov (St Petesburg - 1874) Problem of the Week # 65 White to move and win SOLUTION 41. Qe6+ Kh8 42. Qf7 Rg8 43. Re8 1-0 V. Gunina - T. Kosintseva (Russian Championship 2007) Problem of the Week # 66 White to move and win SOLUTION 9. Qd8+ Kxd8 2. Bxg5+ Kc7 3. Bd8# R. Reti - S. Tartakower (Vienna 1910) Problem of the Week # 67 White to move and win SOLUTION 27. Ng4 Qg5 28. f4 1-0 V. Topalov - B. Gelfand (Wijk aan Zee 2008) Problem of the Week # 68 White to move and win SOLUTION 18. Nxe6 1-0 V. Malisauskas - L. Oll (Vilnius 1988) Problem of the Week # 69 White to move and win SOLUTION 24. Nde7 1-0 Boleslavsky - Dus Chotimirski (Moscow 1942) Problem of the Week # 70 Black to move and win SOLUTION 23... Qg3!! 0-1 S. Levitsky - F. Marshall (Breslau 1912) Problem of the Week # 71 White to move and win SOLUTION 30. Qxd7 Rxd7 31. Re8+ Kh7 32. Rc8 1-0 A. Alekhine - Edgar Colle (Paris 1925) Problem of the Week # 72 White to move and win SOLUTION 26. Rxe6+ fxe6 27. Qxh7 1-0 Hao Wang - Fabiano Caruana (Reykjavik Open 2008) Problem of the Week # 73 Black to move and win SOLUTION 42... Qf3 44. cxb7+ Kf5 0-1 V. Kramnik - V. Anand (Melody Amber 2008) Problem of the Week # 74 White to move and win SOLUTION 32. Rxg6+ fxg6 33. Rxh8+ ... 1-0 A. Khalifman - I. Sokolov (Wijk aan Zee 1991) Problem of the Week # 75 White to move and win SOLUTION 33. Bd6 ... 1-0 Miguel Najdorf - Jan Timman (Buenos Aires 1980) Problem of the Week # 75 White to move and win SOLUTION 22. Nf5 1-0 Emanuel Lasker - R. Short (Baltimore sim 1892)

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