CHESS PUZZLE BOOKS

    202 Checkmates For Children
    A Fun and Instructive Workbook for Childred Serious about Chess!
    Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to children, present 202 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill kids as they work their way through the concepts while they have fun with chess. This book is perfect for kids!
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    202 Checkmates For Children
    A Fun and Instructive Workbook for Childred Serious about Chess!
    Catalog Code: B0042CZ
    Our Price: $9.95

    Chess Cafe Puzzle Book
    This book offers every type of tactical motif imaginable, from the more common back rank mates, pins, skewers, forks and the like up to and including some of the most beautiful and rare combinations. This is a tactical book that will prove exceptionally useful for a wide range of players, intermediate through master strength and even beyond.
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    Chess Cafe Puzzle Book
    Catalog Code: B0017RE
    Our Price: $19.95

    Chess Mazes
    The planning and visualization skills that come from working on Chess Mazes are valuable and instructive. If you are one who often loses games by hanging pieces or missing mates, then this is the book for you. There are many good books which present chess combinations and explain tactical motifs with the goal of training your tactical ability.
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    Chess Mazes
    Catalog Code: B0019RE
    Our Price: $14.95

    How Good Is Your Chess?
    Rate Yourself in 100 Positions
    Grandmaster and Hall of Fame chess legend Larry Evans draws upon his vast experience as five-time U.S. champion to present a fun and challenging new approach for chess players. You can test your skills against one hundred fascinating positions from actual games and choose the best move among three choices.
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    How Good Is Your Chess?
    Rate Yourself in 100 Positions
    Catalog Code: B0030CZ
    Our Price: $9.95

    Sit and Solve Chess Problems
    These abbreviated, two-move problems will help chess players sharpen their mind and improve their game. In every one, White has already made its first move, and it's up to the puzzler to figure out Black's defenses and the mating moves that refute them.
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    Sit and Solve Chess Problems
    Catalog Code: B0034OB
    Our Price: $4.95

    Chess Choice Challenge 3
    By popular demand, a third Chess Choice Challenge and another bumper bundle of tricky and varied chess positions on which to test your analytical ability. Multiple-choice questions direct your attention to different facets of each position, while you are also invited to 'take your pick' from a range of suggested continuations. Having wracked your brains to come to the correct conclusions, you can then compare your findings with those of Grandmaster Chris Ward whose deep and imaginative analytical solutions, spiced with his customary good humour, will help to increase your appreciation of the art of chess analysis - and also your playing strength!
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    Chess Choice Challenge 3
    Catalog Code: B0100BT
    Our Price: $9.95

    Its Your Move Tough Puzzles
    Feeling up to a challenge? In this highly original and instructive test yourself book, Grandmaster Chris Ward presents a selection of carefully chosen puzzles for you to solve. Hot on the heels of his very successful It's Your Move and Improvers It's Your Move, comes It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles, which this time aims to rack the brains of even the most experienced chess players. The puzzles might be a bit more difficult this time but, in the same style of the previous two books, the reader is once again helped by the choice of five plausible plans and has to decide which is the most likely to succeed.
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    Its Your Move Tough Puzzles
    Catalog Code: B0129EM
    Our Price: $18.95

    Test Your Chess - Piece Power
    In this entertaining test-yourself book, suitable for young players and novices of all ages, John Walker shows how to master each of the pieces. Learn how to get the most from your pieces, answer the question and add up your score. Test your chess and watch yourself improve-and enjoy the fun at the end!
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    Test Your Chess - Piece Power
    Catalog Code: B0092EM

    Regular Price: $18.95

    Special Price: $7.58


    Sam Loyd: His Story and Best Problems
    Sam loyd is widely considered to be the finest chess composer that ever lived, often authorizing problems with witty themes that would challenge even the strongest of players. What isn't so well known is that he was also one of the best chess players in the U.S.,despite having a playing style that was highly flawed. Like his problems, Sam would often try to create fantastic combinations over the board during his games, rather than simplifying and going for the win.

    This book, edited by Grandmaster Andrew Soltis, presents 58 of Sam Loyd's problems for your consideration. In addition to the puzzles, the author extensively discusses the man behind the puzzles.
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    Sam Loyd: His Story and Best Problems
    Catalog Code: CB0107CD
    Our Price: $5.95

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