The Heart and Soul of Chess in 1000 Brilliant Diagrams

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	• 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate (Chess Lovers' Library) Fred Reinfeld Wilshire Book Company, 1971 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 46 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I collect books on checkmates, tactics and traps

I have started a collection of books on checkmates, tactics and traps. These are some of the very important things to study. When it comes to checkmate books "1001 Brilliant ways to checkmate" has one very strong point. It has LOTS of checkmate problems containing almost every important type of checkmate idea there is.
There are some weak points. It has poor binding as after a short period the pages begin to come apart in hunks! Be prepared for this. There are some problems which have better moves, so there are some mistakes. Better organized checkmate books are "Art of the Checkmate", "How to Beat your Dad at chess" and as books to learn some neat checkmates in the openings, "Winning Chess Traps for Juniors" and "Winning Chess Traps". The pages haven't fallen apart in any of these books that I own. Maybe the publisher will realize this and do a better job on their next printing to fix the binding problem. When done, add one star!!

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The Heart and Soul of Chess in 1000 Brilliant Diagrams

No matter how good a strategic or a tactical chess player one is, the heart and soul of the game remains the surprise or unexpected checkmate. This book takes the reader through 1000 checkmates, all taken from actual grandmaster play. It proceeds in a graduated way from the less interesting mate-in-two, to the novel and more advance mates in up to seven moves ahead.

The only drawbacks are that the diagrams are two-dimensional and the notation is of the old style, but this, while annoying, does not subtract from the overall value and quality of the content of the book. Mate motifs are grouped according to mating pieces engaged in the mating maneuver, such as knight and rook, or bishop and rook mates, etc. It would have been nice to have had the actual games from which the mate setups were taken, but that is missing.

Despite this, for me, it is a constant companion that expands one chess insight in immeasurable and unpredictable ways. It is one of my most prized possessions. I never leave home without it.

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Tactics

This book is completely puzzles with short intros to the sections. Giving a general impression of what to look for. Other than that this book is no nonsense tactics and many of them!

I love this book. I can flip to a random page and just work on puzzles. Some are very easy others are very hard.

My only complaint is that the answer key is descriptive text.

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