The Puzzle King: Sam Loyd's Chess Problems and Selected Mathematical Puzzles

Sam Loyd, the Puzzle King, is an authentic American genius. Famous as a composer of chess problems and puzzles of every kind, his inventive and original posers have amused, perplexed and delighted people by the millions. Presented in this volume are Loyd's 710 chess problems, artful and cunning, along with 34 of his most popular prize-winning math puzzles. Large, clear diagrams and easy-to-follow solutions are among the features making this edition an instant classic, one that will challenge and entertain the reader for years.

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Strategic Play: School of Chess Excellence 3

This third volume in Mark Dvoretsky’s School of Chess Excellence series is devoted to questions of strategy aimed at improving the reader’s positional understanding. The author also examines a number of positions that lie on the boundary between the middlegame and the endgame. As in the other books in the series, Dvoretsky uses examples from his own games and those of his pupils as well as episodes from other players’ games.

Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions and Ideas

This newly revised volume in the successful Comprehensive Chess Course sharpens and tightens your game through examination and study of the 300 most important chess game positions. The most important and instructive positions over the last 100 years arranged as challenges, with illuminating explanations and solutions. Lev Alburt, Grandmaster of Chess and renowned three-time US chess champion, presents and analyzes the 300 most important game positions an average player should understand and remember to become a chess expert.

The Inner Game of Chess: How to Calculate and WinEvery player has heard the saying, "Chess is 99 percent tactics." It isn't. It's 99 percent calculation. But until now there has never been a book devoted entirely to this most mysterious and essential chess technique.

This book examines both the technical and practical aspects of how to think ahead -- the selection of candidate moves, the evaluation of end positions, finding the proper move order, and the like.

The Chess-Player's Companion

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.