One of the most popular books on tactics and combinations ever released is now available on CD for the first time.
The third edition of the Anthology of Chess Combinations features several major changes introduced by the Chess Informant Editorial Board, the main one being that it has been divided into two main parts featuring instructive and practical examples. As a foundation for the first part, the previous edition of the Anthology has been used with original classification keys pertaining to fundamental tactical motifs.
The second part has been created to incorporate the elements of a workbook. More recent examples have been added and subdivided into three groups to maintain clear-cut structure. Each group has three difficulty levels without any classification keys, to make sure that the prospective solver cannot benefit from any hints..
The third edition of the Anthology of Chess Combinations with 2,709 examples will help readers have a greater appreciation of the art of combinational chess and a fundamental understanding of how it can be achieved.
Chess Informant Solver’s Kit Chess Informant Solver’s Kit is a sophisticated application designed for self-testing. It comes bundled with the CD version of the third edition of the Anthology of Chess Combinations. The user is provided with self-testing functionality along with features such as searching combinations, viewing in HTML format, exchanging subsets with other users and so on.
Months, even years of enjoyment! Test your tactical ability by solving some of the greatest chess combinations in history!
Review On Jul 26, 2006by steve davis of Clemson, SC
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Not for the faint-hearted. There are "warm-up" exercises in this series that will raise blisters on your thinking cap. This isn't meant as a condemnation of the work. Just be warned that these are unvarnished grandmaster-level examples of tactical motifs, and grandmasters aren't especially prone to making two-move blunders leading to royal forks or mate on the move. Prepare to find beautiful, problematic "hidden" moves, often in sequences that will compel you to find best move after best move while the defense has opportunities to make plausible defensive attempts. To use one Fischer example, the winning line requires that White be willing to leave several pieces en prise, and to be able to work out responses to several defensive lines that have subtle shortcomings. My personal recommendation would be for students of tactics to make sure they can work all of the Reinfeld combinations in his "1001" manuals before diving into these. I would rate this as "excellent" except the software consists of a CD with no booklet or instructions. "Manuals?! We don't need no stinkin' manuals!!" Well, for 60 bucks there should at least be a page making sure folks know how to load the default database.
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