THE GAMBIT BOOK OF INSTRUCTIVE CHESS PUZZLES (Graham
Burgess)
160 pages (194 mm x 132
mm).
£10.99/$16.95/€14,85
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puzzles
Solving tactical puzzles is one of the most effective ways
to improve your chess. This convenient book provides 300 exercises, with
instructive points highlighted in the solutions.
There is something here for everyone. The puzzles in the
first two chapters are based on a clear-cut tactic or checkmate, such as those
explained in Gambit's best-sellers How to Beat Your Dad
at Chess and Chess Tactics for Kids. The
endgame challenges highlight tactics and principles in action. In practice it
is vital to defend resiliently and seek counterattacking chances - there is an
innovative chapter on these rarely-covered themes as well as puzzles where the
reader must decide how to punch home an attack.
Later chapters help readers develop a vital skill: the
ability to make tough chessboard decisions. Attack, sacrifice, grab material,
defend or simplify - it's for you to decide! Principles and guidelines are
emphasized, together with common sources of error. The final section of puzzles
will prove a stern challenge even for the best players, with the reader exposed
to the full complexity of modern chess - with a few helpful hints along the
way.
Gambit Publications has been publishing top-quality
innovative chess books since 1998, winning numerous awards in several
countries. FIDE Master Graham Burgess is Gambit's Editorial Director,
and one of the founders of the company. He has written more than twenty books
and holds the world record for marathon blitz chess playing. He lives in
Minnesota.
Download a pdf file with a
sample from the book.
"There are several things a successful book on tactical
puzzles should have. They include examples that are not well-known, material
arranged not by theme but by degree of difficulty and perhaps most importantly
solutions that are detailed enough to explain to the student why they went
wrong. Burgess passes all these tests with flying colors. He is particularly
strong in his comprehensive answers that are often several paragraphs long.
This thoroughness insures that anyone that puts time into solving them will
benefit whether they find the right answer or not." - IM John
Donaldson
"300 positions have been carefully selected with the express
purpose of providing chess lessons that will raise the reader's standard of
play. The book is divided into sections that deal with such important issues as
tactics, checkmate, the ending, counterattack, sacrifice and defense. There is
something here for everyone!" - Patrick Foley, Business Day and The Sunday
Times (South Africa)
"Also well worth buying is Graham Burgess's book - 300 chess
puzzles of a rising level of difficulty, with solutions at the back. It's an
ideal book to take when traveling - no more need to grumble about delays! The
book provides more than just entertainment of course, as it also offers
instruction, especially in the tactical area, and also for the endgame" -
Bab Wilders, Nederlands Dagblad
"Instruction is the aim and this book confidently hits the
target." - Sean Marsh, marshtowers.blogspot.com
"A nice opportunity to refresh your brain with puzzles from
current tournament practice." - Martin Rieger,
www.niggemann.com
"The first thing to note about this book is that it is
smaller than A5, ergo it is easy to carry around. This means it's easy to whip
out during those laborious moments waiting for trains and buses or just
hanging' around somewhere. ... I do like this book because it's not a load of
positions with 'obvious' first moves like a queen or rook sacrifice. It's much
more subtle than that. Indeed often the puzzle will be about rejecting such a
move because it is often artificial. ... The positions incidentally are taken
from games played in 2010/11 so you can enjoy analysing lots of new material.
Burgess clearly states that he was looking for positions where the right path
is hard to guess without seeing the main idea, and where there is only one
solution. ...If you take your time going through this and work hard to retain
the ideas behind what Graham Burgess is trying to get you to do I believe it
will improve your game as well as provide hours of fun at the board." - Carl
Portman, Carl's Planet (www.carlsplanet.co.uk)
Gambit books by Graham Burgess: 101 Chess Opening Surprises, Chess
Highlights of the 20th Century, Gambit Guide to
the Torre Attack, The Slav, The Taimanov Sicilian, Chess Openings for Kids, The Gambit Book of Instructive Chess
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