Chess Puzzles : Improve Your Game
02/08/2021
Chess Players like Challenge given by Chess Puzzles
My love for chess puzzles is for life, I know!
I used to do chess puzzles for hours on end. Like sweets – you finished one and would like another one. And then the next one. And the next one.
Chess players like the challenge and puzzles can give you that. Once you mastered easy ones, choose harder with a twist. Not so straightforward. The hardest, I would say, are chess studies. Did you know that there are chess composers coming up with all kind of intricate ideas?
Chess composer – WikipediaA chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies, twomovers, threemovers, moremovers, helpmates, selfmates, fairy problems, or retrograde analysis. Moreover, composers have their own preferred…
Chess Puzzle Books I Recommend
My recommended chess books page has quite a few books I came across in my chess career.
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The Dutch Step method has lots of chess puzzles to offer:
Learn chess with the Steps MethodThe Steps Method is a method to teach children to play chess. A large number of schools and chess clubs use this method for their chess lessons.
Or take a look at M. Blokh’s book Combinative Motifs. 1400 chess exercises on combination only!
Combinative Motifs – Maxim BlokhCombinative Motifs – Maxim Blokh 1,205 best tactical positions, grouped according to their topics. Intended for chess players with ELO 1600-2400. This chess exercise book is written by an experienced coach, International Grandmaster of ICCF. It contains more than 1400 exercises that are arranged ve…
If that wouldn’t seem enough, we could go through another book by M. Blokh 600 combinations !
Chess Players like Challenge given by Chess Puzzles
My love for chess puzzles is for life, I know!
I used to do chess puzzles for hours on end. Like sweets – you finished one and would like another one. And then the next one. And the next one.
Chess players like the challenge and puzzles can give you that. Once you mastered easy ones, choose harder with a twist. Not so straightforward. The hardest, I would say, are chess studies. Did you know that there are chess composers coming up with all kind of intricate ideas?
Chess Puzzle Books I Recommend
My recommended chess books page has quite a few books I came across in my chess career.
Shop for recommended chess books
The Dutch Step method has lots of chess puzzles to offer:
Or take a look at M. Blokh’s book Combinative Motifs. 1400 chess exercises on combination only!
If that wouldn’t seem enough, we could go through another book by M. Blokh 600 combinations !
