One Thousand and One Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations

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If you know the basic movements of chess and has the aptitude to continue playing, then this is a must have. Reinfeld, nonetheless, is still one of the best problem books, provided that the level is appropriate for you. I did about 1500 of the problems in Polgar's big book in 2001 or thereabouts, spending 15 -30 minutes per day. Ce livre est un grand classique à posséder; depuis que je cherche les positions sur mon échiquier mon niveau s'est amélioré sensiblement ! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I have both Fred Reinfeld's 1,001 Winning Sacrifices and Combinations and 1,001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate books. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.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. Whilst it is very useful to look at positions like this one of the problems of chess is that real games do not come with "white to win in 2" guidance so when you are told that this combination contains a pin it is not a realistic analytical situation. Start going through Reinfeld or a similar intermediate tactic book (as someone would normally do, with calculation,etc. I thought it woudl help immensely but I stlil make the painful small flat-out blunders here and there, in winning positions. Other similar books are the Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book by Grandmaster John Emms, and Chess, 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games, by Laszlo Polgar, the father of the famed Polgar sisters.

Two books that I would recommend are "Chessercizes" by Bruce Pandolfini, and "Chess Tactics for Students" by John Bain. The current "Chess Lovers Library" reprint is a photographic reproduction of the original, and the some of the black pieces merge into the black squares on some of the diagrams. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.I see nothing conclusive so I finally turn to the back and lo and behold he gives Bxf7 as the winning move with the line Rxf7, not even bothering with Nxf7. I still think it's very good though - part of the issue may be that I play almost entirely blitz when I play, so there's just not enough time to do the deeper calculation that I do when I'm solving Reinfeld problems. For example problem 52 where he gives a line in which Black loses their queen resulting in a nearly 6 point advantage for White, while the best move would keep the queen and give less than a 2 point advantage for White and in that line it's much more difficult for White to find the moves that keep the advantage too. I do not want to work on 1001 Combinations and Sacrifices by Fred Reinfeld as many of it solutions have mistakes.

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.I have used this book on several occasions to prepare for USCF tournaments, usually after a playing layoff. The book clearly has its faults, particularly the current reproduction, but I did not find any of these faults to be important. La plupart des problèmes sont consistants et riches en variantes à analyser; le seul petit reproche est que le niveau de difficulté n'est pas symbolisé. minutes a day makes a good daily regimen and is virtually guaranteed to improve your play and your rating. Strong club players should be able to solve most of the exercises from the diagram at first attempt.