I have spoken to many masters and experts of that generation that have happily used this book for problems. The current "Chess Lovers Library" reprint is a photographic reproduction of the original, and the some of the black pieces merge into the black squares on some of the diagrams. The positions are well chosen, and have the feel of real game positions that you could actually meet, rather than rare and unrepresentative curiosities.

The positions and solutions are available on the web, but I find even this poorly produced book more convenient to use than a computer screen.Thanks for the replies Jollepa, and hey man just keep practicing and your visualization will improve before you know it. If you have an e-book such as Kindle, you might want to look into "Tactics Time" by Tim Brennan and Anthea Carson, which I wrote about in another thread. I've been solving the puzzles from it daily for the past few weeks, it is really helpful to improve your tactical vision.

I thought it woudl help immensely but I stlil make the painful small flat-out blunders here and there, in winning positions. Would be interested to hear how The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book, and its sibling, The Giant Chess Puzzle Book (both with 1000 puzzles) compare to the Reifeld books if anyone knows. there's some gems in their for sure, very strong and unexpected combinations- and a few that are like ? Most difficult are the examples that run seven moves and more; some of these may even stump an ordinary master. Working through the puzzles in this book will add 100 points to your Elo rating if you are under 2000.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The book clearly has its faults, particularly the current reproduction, but I did not find any of these faults to be important.

La plupart des problèmes sont consistants et riches en variantes à analyser; le seul petit reproche est que le niveau de difficulté n'est pas symbolisé. if anyone has ever run 1001 through an engine; or can address whether you they make more sense when you are a tactics superhero- I'm interested. Ce livre est un grand classique à posséder; depuis que je cherche les positions sur mon échiquier mon niveau s'est amélioré sensiblement ! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too.If there is a mistake/problem with an item or description, please let me know and I will do my utmost in resolving it, and making you VERY HAPPY! I see nothing conclusive so I finally turn to the back and lo and behold he gives Bxf7 as the winning move with the line Rxf7, not even bothering with Nxf7. I've actually done most of the Reinfeld book but in terms of actually being able to resolve the problems quickly again, I can probably only get 75% of the ones I've done. I go through these books about every 4 - 6 months, scoring myself as to solutions and, thereby, measuring my progress and focussing on my weaknesses. I still think it's very good though - part of the issue may be that I play almost entirely blitz when I play, so there's just not enough time to do the deeper calculation that I do when I'm solving Reinfeld problems.