Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games: Amazon.de: Laszlo Polgar, Bruce Pandolfini: Englische Bücher

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If you love chess puzzles, this massive tome is for you. It's simply one chess challenge after another. With problems fit for beginner and grand master alike, Polgar's collection will feed your craving for years. Better yet, it's a major bargain. When I first pulled it off the shelf I was expecting a price tag three times higher.

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3.0 von 5 Sternen Things you should know before you buy it, 22. Mai 2000

Von	"granola_head" - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen

First of all, I'm not saying it is a bad book. I would say, however that there were certain characteristics that make a difference in usefulness not mentioned in the review. 1. The book is really about 4,000+ mates with the rest being games and "endgame" positions. If you are looking for a good book of all kinds of positions (forks, pins, etc., this isn't it). 2. The solutions are not complete. In fact, the mates in 2 only have the first (white) move. That's it.... A little strange. The mates in 3 do have solutions, but I only see one line of play. I havent' checked through them all <grin> but I would be surprised if there aren't several potential lines of play. 3. The notation in the games is a little difficult to get used to if you are used to the standard algebraic notation. It is called "universal" but I found it confusing at times. 4. The section of combinations have titles f2/f6, h3/h3, etc. and there is no explanation of why the heck they are named that (other than they all have the particular move in the sequence. 5. There is really no analysis is the games, which is unfortunate, because the first few I looked at were quite amazing. 6. The paper is too thin and as a result, the white squares on the boards all look dark. A little thing, but kind of irksome. 7. The thing is way too heavy. There is a lot of white space on each page, and the author could have probably cut the number of pages by a 1/3 without too much trouble. You won't be taking this on trips unless you are really committed.

Hope this helps the next person. I'll keep the book, and use it, but maybe the next version will consider these items, all of which are easily corrected.

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2.0 von 5 Sternen Great for beginners, but..., 1. Dezember 1999

Von	Vernon Walker - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen

I have to disagree with some of the previously posted reviews here. While this book is quite good for beginner/intermediate players (under 1700), it's really quite useless for more advanced players. Luckily, Laszlo Polgar has written two further books in the same format as this one for more advanced players. The titles are "Chess Middlegames" and "Chess Endgames", and both have over 4000 positions to play through. Moreover, the great majority of these positions are not one move solutions, but full-length (up to 30 moves) game continuations. The best way to learn chess is through pattern recognition, and Mr. Polgar has done a great job in his other books. I have yet to see this book on amazon.com, hope they have it soon. Until then, however, the only place to get it is at the chesstalk.com website. By the way, I'm a strong expert class player, so my comments are geared towards other players of similar strength.

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