Practical Chess Puzzles: 600 Positions to Improve Your Calculation and Judgment

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.