One Thousand and One Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations

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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. I go through these books about every 4 - 6 months, scoring myself as to solutions and, thereby, measuring my progress and focussing on my weaknesses.

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. Strong club players should be able to solve most of the exercises from the diagram at first attempt. And I finally suggest that you do not need the solution to a problem directly underneath the puzzle: I have not seen any puzzle book except for those written for complete beginners with such a format.So, the object of this book is to add to your knowledge, to make you a strong chessplayer, and (last but not least) to delight you with some of the most beautiful moves ever played on the chessboard. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The positions are well chosen, and have the feel of real game positions that you could actually meet, rather than rare and unrepresentative curiosities. minutes a day makes a good daily regimen and is virtually guaranteed to improve your play and your rating.

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've actually done most of the Reinfeld book but in terms of actually being able to resolve the problems quickly again, I can probably only get 75% of the ones I've done. It is your responsibility to make sure that your operating equipment is compatible with the relevant software or video DVD before purchasing and that software purchased is functionally adequate for your needs. This classic problem book by Master Reinfeld is an well-organized and excellent set of problems for beginner to advanced intermediate players.

I have both Fred Reinfeld's 1,001 Winning Sacrifices and Combinations and 1,001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate books. Working through the puzzles in this book will add 100 points to your Elo rating if you are under 2000. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too. While in the tactics book the chapters can actually be misleading because often the combinations make use of several tactics so if you just look for the specific tactic in the chapter heading you could overlook things.

Reinfeld, nonetheless, is still one of the best problem books, provided that the level is appropriate for you. 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. I thought it woudl help immensely but I stlil make the painful small flat-out blunders here and there, in winning positions. The book clearly has its faults, particularly the current reproduction, but I did not find any of these faults to be important.