Download or read book 100 Headachingly Hard Mate in Two Chess Puzzles Composed by Sam Loyd written by Martin B Justesen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you get: - 100 really hard mate in two puzzles by one of the best chess composers to have lived organized neatly! Sam Loyd was born January 30, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., and died April 10, 1911, in New York. He is probably one of the greatest American puzzle creators ever. Not only did he create amazing chess puzzles, but Sam Loyd also made puzzle games and math puzzles. Loyd studied engineering and took a license as a steam and mechanical engineer, but he managed to create a career out of creating puzzles. When Loyd was 14 years old, he started creating his first chess problems. As a 19-year-old he was problem editor for the magazine Chess Monthly, edited by no other than Paul Morphy. As a chess player, he peaked at no. 15 in the world around 1868-1869. It must therefore be clear that you are up against an excellent puzzle-master when you are going to solve the 100 mate in two problems in this book all composed by Sam Loyd. Loyd said the following about the art of making mate-in-two-problems: "I have often expressed the opinion that it is no easy task to compose a good two-move problem. It should have a decided point, a well-defined theme with a sparkle to it; and the difficulty should consist in the surprise of the trick, and not in the mere trouble of selecting the correct key-move."You might ask why I should solve mate in two puzzles?Former world no. 3 and renown chess trainer, Arthur Yusupov, writes in his book Boost Your Chess that mate-in-two-puzzles "..are very useful for training in the calculation of variations. One is often foced to take into account a lot of candidate moves in order to reach the solution. It is very important to consider all possible replies for your opponent. This develops your skill in calculating short variations." I hope this short intro will keep you motivated to solve these challenging chess puzzles. The problems are presented in a semi-random order to make different themes be presented evenly throughout the book.The solutions are mostly presented with the different variations, but in some only the first correct move is given. This is the move I have found in the sources/databases, so I have judged that Loyd wanted it to presented like this. It also gives you an extra challenge to go visualize all the different variations of the solution.
Download or read book 500 Insanely Hard Mate in Two Chess Puzzles written by Martin B Justesen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the challenging world of chess mate in two problems with '500 Insanely Hard Mate in Two Chess Puzzles, ' a unique blend of chess strategy and data science. This book offers an extensive collection of mate-in-two problems, carefully selected through an analytical process involving Stockfish 16 and Python. Beginning with an initial dataset of 180,000 puzzles, the selection was refined using criteria such as average nodes, search depth, board complexity, and unique checkmating moves, ensuring each puzzle represents a true test of skill. Beyond just a puzzle book, this is an experiment in pushing the limits of chess analysis. It builds on the difficulty found in '100 Headachingly Hard Mate in Two Puzzles Composed by Sam Loyd, ' introducing puzzles that challenge even the most seasoned players. The selection process involved computational analysis, with puzzles chosen for their ability to engage and perplex the solver, requiring deep thought and strategic planning. '500 Insanely Hard Mate in Two Chess Puzzles' is perfect for those looking to test their chess skills against some of the most challenging puzzles available. Prepare for an unmatched challenge and hone your chess problem-solving skills with this specially curated collection.
Download or read book Sam Loyd and His Chess Problems written by Alain Campbell White and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cognitive Chess written by Konstantin Chernyshov and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When You Are Serious about Improving... To improve and succeed, a chessplayer must be able calculate precisely and visualize prospective positions. This is easier said than done. While pondering the next move, a chessplayer frequently keeps “replaying” the same melody in his mind, thus falling into a kind of trance. This book by Russian grandmaster Konstantin Chernyshov is designed to improve your visualization and calculation skills. With 500 exercises and an additional 250 puzzles, the author provides a vast amount of material to work through for students and coaches of the game. Most exercises require the reader to go through several stages of thought, including visualizing the configuration of the pieces, evaluating the resulting positions, and finally, calculating an accurate continuation. The regimen suggested by the author will require a disciplined approach by serious chessplayers. The exercises and puzzles start out with easy examples, but they gradually become more difficult. And all are meant to be solved without sight of the board. As noted by Ian Harris in his foreword: Cognitive Chess is designed to train you to visualize the board and correctly calculate sequences in your mind, skills that are essential to problem solving in all phases of the game. Players who train in these areas will certainly see an overall improvement in their game. After all, chess is ultimately a contest between opponents to determine who can “out-calculate” the other. Cognitive Chess: When you are serious about taking your game to the next level...
Download or read book Mathematical Puzzles written by Sam Loyd and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 500 Chess Puzzles Mate in 5 Advanced and Expert Level written by Chess Akt and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solve chess problems and improve your chess tactical skills. This book of chess problems will certainly be of great benefit to amateur players. By practicing day after day, they will progress, in a certain way, using the best tactical schemes. In chess, tactical play is crucial. Any strategy, patiently built, can be instantly ruined by a tactical move. The strategy is a general plan that requires many moves to be realized. On the contrary, the tactic is a short-term operation that contributes to the achievement of the strategy. The tactic usually involves few, but incisive shots. In general, the tactic is for checkmate or material gain. To do this, it often uses attacks such as fork, pinning, deflection, overload, sacrifice, etc. To improve your tactical sense, it is necessary to practice regularly to solve diagrams such as those presented in this series. The following 500 problems are progressive, they should allow you to reach a new level in your progression.
Download or read book Blindfold Endgame Visualization written by Martin Bonde Justesen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blindfold chess training exercises with a focus on endgame positions This book will train and test your visualization skills through 50 well-selected positions. The ability to play chess blindfolded has always amazed the public and club players alike. You might have seen Beth Harmon play blindfold chess on the ceiling in the Netflix hit 'The Queen's Gambit'. Even though Beth seems to have acquired the skill out of the blue it takes practice to master it in reality. This book will give you 50 well-selected endgame studies, positions, and mate problems, that you can practice on. They are presented in the following manner, with first the composer/game, then the result, and the position of the pieces. Try to see if you can solve the following position: D. Khismatullin vs. A. Volokitin, 2008 White draws W: Kc2, a2 B: Ke3, c3, b4 Why This Book? I have always been impressed by strong chess players' abilities to visualize the board without seeing it, firing off variations in the post mortem, or walking away from the board during a game while thinking about the position. As an adult trying to learn the game and improve I really want to be able to improve my ability to visualize. However, I soon discovered that there wasn't much training material available. To change this I have gone through hundreds of endgame studies, game positions, and mate problems to select the best positions for blindfold solving. You might ask yourself why should I spend time trying to visualize a position and calculate when I have the board to look at during the game. Boris Gelfand said it pretty clearly in an interview on the Perpetual Podcast: "to save energy". By straining your brain muscles now, you will be able to outlast your next opponent. This book contains 50 blindfold endgame positions. This might not sound like a lot, but most people buy chess books and never finish them resulting in a feeling of failure. Even adults with jobs and kids, like myself, can finish this book and get a sense of achievement. This will hopefully motivate you to keep going, and I plan to publish a second volume in 2021 with more positions. I hope that the book will challenge you to stretch and strain your mind in the effort to solve these positions. Don't be scared of failing as long as you put in the effort. You can also see it as a meditative exercise disconnecting from the outside world. Set aside a minimum amount of time you want to spend on each position. I will suggest 15 minutes. If you haven't solved it by then, take a look at the diagram of the position in the back, before you try to solve it blindfolded again. If you feel stuck try to write down your variations on a paper. Finally, if all else fails try to solve it by looking at the diagrams in the book. What do the experts say? "Ericsson notes that for a novice, somewhere around an hour a day of intense concentration seems to be a limit, while for experts this number can expand to as many as four hours-but rarely more."― Cal Newport, Deep Work "We played blindfold chess wherever we were-dancing, hiking, on buses and trains; wherever two of us happened to be, we would begin a blindfold game. All over Antwerp, people shook their heads at this babbling crew. A year later I was playing 16 games blindfold, which represented a new Belgian record. In 1924, while in the Belgian army, I played 20 at Naur, a sort of pay-off for having nothing to do but peel potatoes for two hours a day." ― George Koltanowski "Playing blindfold, like it or not, you have to make your body work at full power, otherwise, you risk losing your" orientation at the board" ― Vladimir Kramnik This book is not a beginner's book but aimed for intermediate and expert players who want a challenge! Solution: 1.a3 bxa3 2.Kxc3 a2 3.Kb2 a1=Q 4.Kxa1 1/2-1/2
Download or read book Simple Chess written by Michael Stean and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a Grand Master, this guide isolates basic elements and illustrates them through Master and Grand Master games, breaking down the mystique of strategy into easy-to-understand ideas.
Download or read book The Fastest Way to Improve at Chess A Thinking System to Find Better Moves written by James Demery and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess is an interesting, challenging and complicated game which is why it is loved and has been embraced by over 500 million people worldwide. All players would like to improve, but many aren`t sure where to start. This book addresses how to improve in the Opening, Middlegame and the Endgame by offering a guide of what to study and a System of Thinking to help guide you through your games.
Download or read book Mastering Chess Logic written by Joshua Sheng and published by Everyman Chess. This book was released on with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly makes the greatest players of all time, such as Magnus Carlsen, Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov stand out from the rest? The basic aspects of chess (calculation, study of opening theory, and technical endgame ability) are of course of great importance. However, the more mysterious part of chess ability lies within the thought process. In particular: • How does one evaluate certain moves to be better than others? • How does one improve their feel of the game? This book will tackle this woefully underexplored aspect of chess: the logic behind the game. It will explain how chess works at a fundamental level. Topics include: • What to think about when evaluating a position. • How to formulate and execute plans. • How to generate and make use of the initiative. The reader also has plenty of opportunities to test their decision-making by attempting 270 practical exercises. These are mostly designed to develop understanding, as the justification of the moves is more important than the actual correct answer.
Download or read book Practical Chess Puzzles written by Guannan Song and published by Everyman Chess. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess puzzle books are undoubtedly popular – and with good reason. Solving chess puzzles helps to sharpen a player’s tactical and combinational skills. This ability is absolutely fundamental for chess development. You won’t get better at tennis until you can consistently hit the ball with accuracy and you won’t get better at chess until you improve your ability to calculate. It is that simple and there are no shortcuts. Many puzzle books take a far too simplistic approach and offer endless positions where the solution is nearly always along the lines of: queen takes something check, king takes queen, check, check and a pretty mate. Aesthetically pleasing perhaps but of minimal use for actual improvement as the patterns are so familiar. Practical Chess Puzzles avoids this pitfall. The positions chosen are far more like those that actually appear on the board during the vast majority of games. Furthermore, at all stages, the puzzles are ranked, enabling the student to gauge progress and identify and correct weaknesses. * 600 puzzles featuring instructive, typically “game-like” positions * Model games featuring important instructional points * A ranking system to assess progress.
Download or read book John Nunn s Chess Puzzle Book written by John Nunn and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most chess puzzle books put you in an artificial situation: you are told a combination exists, what the theme is and what you are required to achieve. This one is different. In a real game, a player may sometimes need to find a combination. On the other hand he may have to reject a tactical idea and simply find a good positional move. His task is to find the right move, whatever it may be. The 300 puzzles in this book put you precisely in that situation. Spectacular ideas abound in these positions, but it is for you to decide whether to go in for them, or whether you would be falling into a trap. If you need them, there are hints to help you on your way. The book ends with a series of tests to measure your skills against those of other players. For this new edition, John Nunn, a top-class grandmaster and a solving world champion, has added 50 new puzzles (with hints and detailed solutions) to test your skills to the full. For ease of following, extra diagrams have been added to the solutions throughout. Overall the book is 60 per cent bigger than the first edition.
Download or read book The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book written by John Emms and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a wealth of puzzle positions to test just about every facet of your tactical skills. The puzzles in this book have been selected by analysing games new and old in search of original puzzle positions. It is very unlikely that even seasoned solvers will recognise many of these positions. Emms, by allying his skills with those of powerful computers, has also made every effort to ensure that the solutions are sound, and that there are no unmentioned alternative solutions. The book begins with 100 relatively easy positions suitable for novices, and ends with 100 extremely tough puzzles, which provide a mind-bending challenge even for top-class players. There are 1001 puzzles in all.
Download or read book The Chess Puzzle Book 4 written by Karsten Mueller and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to The Chess Puzzle Book 4! - It mostly deals with the important technical question of how to convert a static advantage. As noted by Mark Dvoretsky in his Foreword: "I cannot think of any books with high-quality exercises regarding such topics as domination, the - do not hurry” principle, the principle of two weaknesses, etc., all of which are discussed by Müller and his co-author Alexander Markgraf ... I hope that you enjoy this new book by Müller and Markgraf and I encourage you to seriously study the positions discussed in the book. As a result, you will significantly progress in your understanding of chess and improve your results.” Topics include Prophylaxis, The Principle of Two Weaknesses, The Right Exchange, Domination, Do Not Rush, and Converting an Advantage. There are also many well-chosen exercises with comprehensive solutions to help guide and instruct the reader. The Chess Puzzle Book 4 is the fourth volume in the series formerly known as the ChessCafe Puzzle Books.
Download or read book Chess Openings for Beginners written by Cory Klein and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centuries Worth of Opening Theory and Analysis The topic of chess openings is very theoretical. For centuries, some of the brightest minds in the game have analyzed the game and provided the world with tips on how to establish domination from just the first few moves. However, opening theory is very broad and covers hundreds of possible variations. If you're only beginning to learn and play the game, most books on chess openings will be too intricate and lack the amount of detail required for you to fully understand opening theory. Learn to Win Games From the Opening This book is the perfect guide for chess beginners wanting to learn about opening theory and improve the quality of their openings when playing the game. It covers 30 of the most popular chess openings in history and for each, it provides the following: * Move by move analysis of each opening * Chess diagrams to illustrate every single move and give you a visual representation of each position on the board * A list of advantages and disadvantages of each opening (for both players with white and black pieces) * MOST IMPORTANTLY: A move by move analysis of a grandmaster-level chess game where each opening was used In other words, this book will very simply teach you best opening practices and go over the ones you are most likely to encounter when playing the game. It will also give you all the information you need in order to know which opening to play under which circumstances. Furthermore, it will help you develop your own playing style based on sound openings that have been analyzed and tested for centuries by the brightest minds to ever play the game. Learn From Games Played by Chess Grandmasters This book will also show you examples of opening theory put in practice by chess grandmasters throughout history which will help you understand the reasoning and analysis behind each move. As a result, you will learn to predict probable future moves based on what has been done in the past by the best to ever play the game. So don't hesitate. If you want to learn to win chess games from the opening, now is the time. Just scroll up and grab your copy now!
Download or read book 500 Chess Puzzles Mate in 6 Expert Level written by Chess Akt and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solve chess problems and improve your chess tactical skills. This book of chess problems will certainly be of great benefit to players of higher level. By practicing day after day, they will progress, in a certain way, using the best tactical schemes. In chess, tactical play is crucial. Any strategy, patiently built, can be instantly ruined by a tactical move. The strategy is a general plan that requires many moves to be realized. On the contrary, the tactic is a short-term operation that contributes to the achievement of the strategy. The tactic usually involves few, but incisive shots. In general, the tactic is for checkmate or material gain. To do this, it often uses attacks such as fork, pinning, deflection, overload, sacrifice, etc. To improve your tactical sense, it is necessary to practice regularly to solve diagrams such as those presented in this series. The following 500 problems are progressive, they should allow you to reach a new level in your progression.
Download or read book The Giant Chess Puzzle Book written by Zenon Franco and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess puzzles to challenge and entertain players from novices to grandmasters
