Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games

László Polgár

Dec 2013 · Sold by Black Dog & Leventhal

About this ebook

Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level.

Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book.. More than 6,000 illustrations make it easy to see the possibilities regardless of where your pieces are on the board. The book also includes the basic rules of the game and an international bibliography. Chess is the ultimate book on winning the game.

Ratings and reviews

I love this book and own the shelf version. The actual book is gigantic, so I bought the ebook to carry around. It constantly crashes. Links to the solutions don't work and after the last crash it won't show up in my library. I have to go to the books page in the Google store and select read in order to use it! If I don't have a Wi-Fi connection, I just can't read the book. The book shows up in the site as a different title! Weird! I've contacted support but have not heard back.

This is a great book, but the app just does not seem to work with google play book... I am not able to entirely download it on my device, in order to read the book off-line. As well, when I open the book in google play book it forces the app to stop and sends a error notice. Last issue, I am not even able to download the book in PDF from my computer... Is that the case with other Nexus 5 users??

It was working at first but suddenly started to crashing when I was at page 340 or about. So it doesn't work anymore, can't load even one random page now.

About the author

Bruce Pandolfini is perhaps the most experienced chess teacher in North America. He is the author of eighteen instructional chess books, and was portrayed by Ben Kingsley in the film Searching for Bobby Fischer.

Laszlo Polgar is a Hungarian chess teacher whose writing and strategies are respected and known worldwide. He holds the title of master coach and coached his daughters, Susan, Judit, and Sophia, to several world championships and d Olympic gold medals. They host the annual EU PolgáChess Festival in Budapest.