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100 “Rook Endgame” Chess Puzzles for Intermediate Players (Rating 1200-1500): 100 real-life chess tactics puzzles to make you a better player
Ready to improve your chess game by solving the puzzles that will make you a better player?Do you want to improve your chess rating?Do you struggle to spot tactics in chess games?Do you want to quickly spot move combinations to help you win at chess?Are you ready to master chess strategy?“Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game of chess, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.” - Magnus Carlsen
Solving chess puzzles is one of the quickest ways to improve your game and your ability to think ahead. In this book, you’ll find 100 puzzles that have been taken from real games and focus on the tactics often missed by players of all abilities.
By solving these chess puzzles, you’ll quickly start to recognize positions and tactics as they arise in your games, and learn how to respond perfectly – every time.
“Chess puzzles are an essential part of your development as a player and contribute massively to your tactical understanding of the game. Even Grandmasters devote time every day to solving chess puzzles to keep them sharp and improve their intuition”.
This series of five chess puzzle books breaks down essential tactics puzzles into five ability levels, from beginner to master.
In 100 “Rook Endgame” Chess Puzzles for Intermediate Players (Rating 1200-1500) you’ll solve 100 chess strategy challenges that teach you how to win or gain an advantage in the crucial closing stages of any chess game using your rooks.
The chess puzzles in this book are all taken from real-life games and are solved by solving tactics to get ahead in the endgame. You should be looking for forks, skewers, decoys, double attacks, and mating patterns to win the game.
All solutions are given on the following page so you can focus on the chess tactics without the temptation to cheat!
“Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.” Garry Kasparov
“All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.” Bobby Fischer
Buy it now and become a better chess player today
Written by the master of chess strategy puzzles!
Solving chess puzzles is one of the quickest ways to improve your game and your ability to think ahead. In this book, you’ll find 100 puzzles that have been taken from real games and focus on the tactics often missed by players of all abilities.
By solving these chess puzzles, you’ll quickly start to recognize positions and tactics as they arise in your games, and learn how to respond perfectly – every time.
“Chess puzzles are an essential part of your development as a player and contribute massively to your tactical understanding of the game. Even Grandmasters devote time every day to solving chess puzzles to keep them sharp and improve their intuition”.
This series of five chess puzzle books breaks down essential tactics puzzles into five ability levels, from beginner to master.
In 100 “Rook Endgame” Chess Puzzles for Intermediate Players (Rating 1200-1500) you’ll solve 100 chess strategy challenges that teach you how to win or gain an advantage in the crucial closing stages of any chess game using your rooks.
The chess puzzles in this book are all taken from real-life games and are solved by solving tactics to get ahead in the endgame. You should be looking for forks, skewers, decoys, double attacks, and mating patterns to win the game.
All solutions are given on the following page so you can focus on the chess tactics without the temptation to cheat!
“Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.” Garry Kasparov
“All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.” Bobby Fischer
Buy it now and become a better chess player today
Written by the master of chess strategy puzzles!
132 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 20, 2021
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September 8, 2022
This review is for the print, trade-paper edition ISBN 9781789332957
The title is misleading. These are not puzzles; rather, they are simply positions taken from actual games, the author claims. What actual games? We do not know; however, most of the positions seem like they came from a database dump with "Rook" in the parameter--something like the LiChess or Chess.com database (maybe it came from the Chessbase Megabase but I don't think so because the quality of most positions are such that they probably are not from strong titled players.) Who cares, though, what the source is if they are good tactical positions?
Does this volume succeed for its level of 1200-1500? I think so. None of the tactical position exceed more than a four move combo, with most being between two and three move combos. The positions are mostly routine technique solutions, either leading to a forced mate or a forced series leading to the significant gain of material.
Positions are presented with both white and black to move perspectives.
Some issues with this book:
1. the quality of the diagrams are less than ideal. The print for each diagram has the center squares of the board brighter/lighter while the edge squares and corners are darker--it's a bit annoying on the eyes.
2. Solutions to the diagrams are written on the page directly after the diagrams. So, aside from the 1st set of diagrams (and the introduction), the book set up is solutions on the left page from previous page positions, and the right page is positions to be solved. Now, there are four diagrams to be solved per position page. This leaves the bottom of the position page blank with sufficient room for two more diagrams--but they are not there. The poor use of space in this book essentially robs you of two extra diagrams per page on the bottom--this is 50 positions that easily could have and thus should have been printed for a total 6 diagrams per position page instead of 4. This makes this book feel lazy, as if it was just too much for the publisher to add two more diagrams per position page.
3. Given that there are only 4 diagrams per position page, instead of 6, they 4 should have been made slightly larger than they are, which a little small. Larger sizes makes it easier to solve quickly, allowing the reader to move on faster to even more "puzzle" books.
4. In the introduction the author provides some basic thoughts, insights, and methods regarding tactics and solving. Nothing here really to complain about with the exception of at least one thing:
The author suggests that for best results one ought to set up each position on a physical board (not a digital one) and spend at least 10 minutes finding at least three candidate moves, then spend even more time finding moves that "give a positive outcome." Nevermind the vagueness of "positive outcome" nor the lack of explanation of what a candidate move is, this is all entirely overkill. By the time it takes a person to set up 100 positions on a physical board, one could go thru 1000-3000 positions from any decent online tactical trainer, such as Chesskid.com, Chess.com, Lichess or Chesstempo.
The goal here is not to solve anything. The goal is to learn the pertinent tactical patterns. If you cannot come up with a solution (correct or not) within 3-5 minutes, then look up the answer and learn the pattern. At most, set up on a physical board the positions you missed or gave you the most trouble--but do not waste that much time setting up such elementary positions.
Write down your answers on a separate notepad, then compare your answers with the solution--do not waste 10+ minutes for each position trying to reinvent the wheel, just look up the answer, learn the pattern, and move on. I assure you, you will see the same pattern again in the not so distant future.
5. The diagram positions do not have notation markers, so beginners, especially kids, who need algebraic markers (letters and numbers on the side and bottom of the board) will have some trouble writing their answers, especially for those black positions when the board is flipped and seen from black's perspective.
The title is misleading. These are not puzzles; rather, they are simply positions taken from actual games, the author claims. What actual games? We do not know; however, most of the positions seem like they came from a database dump with "Rook" in the parameter--something like the LiChess or Chess.com database (maybe it came from the Chessbase Megabase but I don't think so because the quality of most positions are such that they probably are not from strong titled players.) Who cares, though, what the source is if they are good tactical positions?
Does this volume succeed for its level of 1200-1500? I think so. None of the tactical position exceed more than a four move combo, with most being between two and three move combos. The positions are mostly routine technique solutions, either leading to a forced mate or a forced series leading to the significant gain of material.
Positions are presented with both white and black to move perspectives.
Some issues with this book:
1. the quality of the diagrams are less than ideal. The print for each diagram has the center squares of the board brighter/lighter while the edge squares and corners are darker--it's a bit annoying on the eyes.
2. Solutions to the diagrams are written on the page directly after the diagrams. So, aside from the 1st set of diagrams (and the introduction), the book set up is solutions on the left page from previous page positions, and the right page is positions to be solved. Now, there are four diagrams to be solved per position page. This leaves the bottom of the position page blank with sufficient room for two more diagrams--but they are not there. The poor use of space in this book essentially robs you of two extra diagrams per page on the bottom--this is 50 positions that easily could have and thus should have been printed for a total 6 diagrams per position page instead of 4. This makes this book feel lazy, as if it was just too much for the publisher to add two more diagrams per position page.
3. Given that there are only 4 diagrams per position page, instead of 6, they 4 should have been made slightly larger than they are, which a little small. Larger sizes makes it easier to solve quickly, allowing the reader to move on faster to even more "puzzle" books.
4. In the introduction the author provides some basic thoughts, insights, and methods regarding tactics and solving. Nothing here really to complain about with the exception of at least one thing:
The author suggests that for best results one ought to set up each position on a physical board (not a digital one) and spend at least 10 minutes finding at least three candidate moves, then spend even more time finding moves that "give a positive outcome." Nevermind the vagueness of "positive outcome" nor the lack of explanation of what a candidate move is, this is all entirely overkill. By the time it takes a person to set up 100 positions on a physical board, one could go thru 1000-3000 positions from any decent online tactical trainer, such as Chesskid.com, Chess.com, Lichess or Chesstempo.
The goal here is not to solve anything. The goal is to learn the pertinent tactical patterns. If you cannot come up with a solution (correct or not) within 3-5 minutes, then look up the answer and learn the pattern. At most, set up on a physical board the positions you missed or gave you the most trouble--but do not waste that much time setting up such elementary positions.
Write down your answers on a separate notepad, then compare your answers with the solution--do not waste 10+ minutes for each position trying to reinvent the wheel, just look up the answer, learn the pattern, and move on. I assure you, you will see the same pattern again in the not so distant future.
5. The diagram positions do not have notation markers, so beginners, especially kids, who need algebraic markers (letters and numbers on the side and bottom of the board) will have some trouble writing their answers, especially for those black positions when the board is flipped and seen from black's perspective.
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