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Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games

23 reviews
Laszlo Polgar

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2006

A Book for Everyone
This book is a must have for anyone who is even remotely interested in the game. It starts off with simple checkmating patterns that even the newest player can understand, and then progressively increases in difficulty. But no worries! Even if you are wanting to learn how to play the game, this book teaches you that too! From setting up the board to winning the game, this book is quickly becoming ...

More Chessercizes: Checkmate: 300 Winning Strategies for Players of All Levels

13 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1991

A great puzzle book
I found this puzzle book to be very helpful. The positions are realistic with realistic variety (approximately an equal mix of kingside castled positions and "exposed king hunt" positions with few queenside positions). Unlike the Reinfeld 1001 Checkmates, each puzzle in this book tells you how many moves you need to make to reach checkmate. I found that this forces me to look more deeply at the ...

More Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps 2 (Fireside Chess Library)

13 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1993

A decent book on traps - there just isnt much out there on this subject
There just isn't much out there when it comes to books that cover traps and tactics in the openings. But, knowing the major pitfalls and traps in the openings is very important. And this and the book before it by Mr. Pandolfini do a decent job. True, as some have said, "Winning Chess Traps" is better, but then again it is so old it has long been gathering dust but still a good book. If you are ...

Pandolfini's Endgame Course: Basic Endgame Concepts Explained by America's Leading Chess Teacher (Fireside ...

35 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1988

An Excellent Instructional Manual to Improve your Endgame
Probably anyone no matter their skill level can benefit from this book, but I think is best suited for beginners to intermediate players. The author describes the techniques employed in the most important and typical endgame situations, presenting more than 239 positions that clearly describe how a good player will solve the problems encountered in each one of them. If you have read and liked the ...

Solitaire Chess

3 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Random House Puzzles & Games, 2005

learn from the greats
Essentailly all the games are taken from the authors' chess column that he writes for chess life. If someone is looking for a good book on attacking chess then I recommend solitair chess. My only grip is that most of the games are taken from early masters(Lasker, Tarrash, Pillsbury, etc.). None of the games included modern greats like Shirov, Kamsky, or Radjabov. So what that means is that ...

Chess Openings: Traps And Zaps (Fireside Chess Library)

50 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1989

Chess Openings: Traps & Zaps
This book covers king pawn openings only. For each of the variations the progression of ideas and clever attack and defense positions is explored in a practical way. One can enjoy the short games that emphasize tactical strategies, again and again. It is a perfect travel companion. I refer to it many times and have read it at least twice. This book contains practical attacking considerations ...

Beginning Chess: Over 300 Elementary Problems for Players New to the Game

15 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1993

For the license
I bought this book for copyright reasons. A friend gave me an electronic copy of this book for ChessBase, so wanted to make sure I owned a copy before using it. I have never actually cracked the book open, but I've worked through most of the problems and it is fantastic! I'm really new to chess and it's really helped me see patterns and improve my speed. I won a game just the other day simply ...

Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess

18 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 2003

Fine book
A rather unusual book in that a good part of it consists of answers to the kind of common-sense questions that a chess player of moderate skill would really like to put to an expert. Too many books on chess offer views that, however brilliant, leave the reader wondering exactly how to make use of the advice offered. I have read other books by Pandolfini and I regard him as one of the best chess ...

Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games

40 reviews
Laszlo Polgar

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1995

I gave up near puzzle #1500...
I had the firm objective of solving all puzzles in this book, to improve my chess tactics skills. As I progressed through the puzzles, I could definitely see improvements, to the point of reaching average solving times of 5 to 20 seconds. Unfortunately, at about #1450, the book switches to puzzles that seem to be taken from newspaper columns (the author and year of publication is given for ...

Weapons of Chess: An Omnibus of Chess Strategies (Fireside Chess Library)

25 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1989

My Favorite Chess Coach
Weapons of Chess: An Omnibus of Chess Strategies (Fireside Chess Library) I'm sure I've read and studied enough superb, 5 star, last word, entire truth, highly recommended chess dissertations to rival anyone. I should be a Grandmaster with a 6000 rating. But I'm not; I'm just a little pawn. I play to enjoy the game and I study to further understand the depth, nuance and subtlety in the ...

Square One: A Chess Drill Book for Beginners (Fireside Chess Library)

7 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1994

Excellent for it's intended purpose, see review for details
This book is targeted to someone who is very new to chess. It allows them to quickly learn the rules, notation, how pieces move, elementary tactics and elementary checkmates. The added value of this book over other similar ones is that it is extremely well-organized, logically arranged and set up so that a beginner can make rapid progress. There are many questions, exercises and drills of ...

Kasparov and Deep Blue: The Historic Chess Match Between Man and Machine

10 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1997

A book you can't miss
This is a very good book, but I think Bruce a mistake. I am not gonna really tell you inside this book.

Chess Target Practice: Battle Tactics for Every Square on the Board (Fireside Chess Library)

5 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1994

great for 1000-1500, good for 1500-1700, not for 1700+
I would like give this book 4.5 stars. It has 200+ puzzles, basically. Majority of them are good for 1000-1500. 1500-1700 rated people will benefit b/c of the practice, b/c there are definitely some tough ones. negative point: this idea of "target" really does not work evry well in real life. These should have been presented in different context. e.g. What is white's best move? ...

Endgame Workshop: Principles for the Practical Player (The Pandolfini Chess Library)
Bruce Pandolfini

Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2008

This is an endgame book. It deals with the final phase of a chess game, the one that comes after the opening and the middlegame. But it doesn’t take the point of view that the endgame is separate from the other two phases. Rather it argues that the game is an organic whole, and that everything is related, at least up to a point. What happens earlier can explain what happens later. The book also recognizes that the endgame tends to ...

BEST OF CHESS LIFE AND REVIEW, VOLUME 1 (Fireside Chess Library)
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1988

The Winning Way: The How What and Why of Opening Strategems (Fireside Chess Library)

10 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1998

I can't believe these pathetic ratings!
Most tactical books either group the quizzes by type (ie, pin, discovered attack, etc) or don't group the quizzes at all (and both types of books are helpful). However, this book groups the quizzes by move (ie, Qh5, Qd5, Bxf7, and Nxe5 for example). It really helped me to locate winning combinations early in the game. It also showed me how to attack early in the game. I think it would be ...

Chessercizes: New Winning Techniques for Players of All Levels

1 review
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1991

Great for beginners
Here is another book from the great chess author, Bruce Pandolfini. This one focuses on short-term combinations and uses matches from recent tournament play, along with a "Little Chessercizes" for children and those who have just learned the game. These "Little Chessercizes" also help with the big ones, providing clues by linking a certain problem or position to its smaller components, allowing ...

Every Move Must Have a Purpose: Strategies from Chess for Business and Life

14 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini, Hyperion

Hyperion, 2003

Packed with Knowledge!
This slim volume, which draws life and business lessons from the game of chess, is one of the better self-help and self-improvement books you're likely to pick up. At only 115 pages, double-spaced, and a mere 20,000 words, the entire book is about the length of a chapter in most other books in its category. Author Bruce Pandolfini includes just enough chess lore to keep the book relevant to ...

RUSSIAN CHESS (Fireside Chess Library)

3 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1987

"Pandolfini's Most Substantive Work"
I've either read or browsed all of Pandofini's books and I feel this is his best work. Using the format of move-by-move analysis of six games by rising Russian masters, he illustrates all of the basic strategic motifs, the "meat and potatoes" of the game for a beginning or intermediate player. At the time I read it as a newbie I did not have any strategy classics such as Nimzovich's "My ...

Pandolfini's Chess Complete: The Most Comprehensive Guide to the Game, from History to Strategy (Fireside ...

6 reviews
Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside, 1992

A very good Ref.
Well guys to tell you the truth when i first had the book it seemed like a big waste of money but after giving it a chance ,i was realy happy to buy it becuase you can benfit from every page in it ,when i was teaching my brother the game ,he almost asked me all those bloody QQQQs so i went back for things that i couldn't have the right words to describe.I think it is a good Ref,and it is better ...

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