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Menu Principale Home Scacchi Online Software Scacchistici Teoria Siti Generali Aperture [A00 - A99] Aperture [B00 - B99] Aperture [C00 - C99] Aperture [D00 - D99] Aperture [E00 - E99] Mediogioco Finali   Archivio Problemi   Archivio Partite Database Online Archeologia Scacchistica Chess Links Chess Books World Chess News Chess Events Play Chess Fide Ratings Banners Search with Google 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. Problema della Settimana - Archivio Problem of the Week # 76 White to move and win SOLUTION 18. Nxd5 Nxd5 19. Qf5 ... 1-0 Vlastimil Hort - Anatoly Karpov (Amsterdam 1981) Problem of the Week # 77 White to move and win SOLUTION 27. Rxh7+ Kxh7 28. Rxf7+ Rxf7 29. Qxg6+ 1-0 Sandor Boros - Laszlo Szabo (Budapest 1937) Problem of the Week # 78 White to move and win SOLUTION 37. Rxg6+ hxg6 38. h7+ Kxh7 39. Qxf7+ Ng7 40. Kf2 1-0 M. Taimanov - T. Petrosian (Zurich 1953) Problem of the Week # 79 Black to move and win SOLUTION 12... Nd5+ 13. Bd2 Qb6 14. Qxa8+ Kd7 15. O-O Nc7 -+ A. Nimzowitsch - A. Alekhine (Bled 1931) Problem of the Week # 80 White to move and win SOLUTION 40. a4+ +- G. Sosonko - A. Miles (Wijk aan Zee 1981) Problem of the Week # 81 White to move and win SOLUTION 24. Bxf7+ Kxf7 25. Rxc7+ Qxc7 26. Qh7+ (+-) E. Mecking - Tan Lian Ann (Petropolis 1973) Problem of the Week # 82 White to move and win SOLUTION 23.Nxf7 Qc5 24.Qxc5 bxc5 25.Rbb7 1-0 V. Hort - I. Platonov (Wijk aan Zee 1970) Problem of the Week # 83 White to move and win SOLUTION 31. Qg6 1-0 J.M. Bellon Lopez - Z. Ribli (Linares 1981) Problem of the Week # 84 White to move and win SOLUTION 26. Rxd4 cxd4 27. Nf6+ Kf8 28. Qxh7 gxf6 29. Re1 1-0 Dus Chotimirsky - Bannik (Vilnius 1949) Problem of the Week # 85 Black to move and win SOLUTION 25. ... Ng3+ 26. Qxg3 f4 27. Qh3 Bxh3 +- (27. Qf2 Qxh2+) S. Narayanan - V. Ikonnikov (Hastings - Masters 2006)

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