Author: stuart taylor
Date: 17:04:57 09/20/03
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On September 20, 2003 at 19:33:45, John Merlino wrote: >On September 20, 2003 at 18:59:45, stuart taylor wrote: > >>This book rates its chess problems (mainly from actual games) as 1-5 in >>difficulty rating, the easiest being 1. >>If you want to know what I really think, I would tell you that there are other >>such books where the most difficult poblems in the book are perhaps equivalent >>to the number one of Nunns book. >>One or two books of chess problems by Raymond Keene, the most difficult one are >>probably easier than the very easiest of Nunns, and Ray Keenes book was not not >>written for beginners either. >> >>What I did... I marked all the problems which are rated (when you look into >>"hints") 1, and am doing those first. >>I really don't know how they are considered as being so easy. There could well >>be 4 or 5 levels easier, before that level, with reasonable things to have to >>solve. >>S.Taylor > >Could you tell us what the first puzzle in the book is, please? And, if it isn't >rated a 1, what is its rating? > >jm I've never yet succeeded in making a diagram come up here. I suppose I should! I also don't know what's special about the "first" puzzle in the book. Is it a way that you can identif which book it is? Anyway, I was hoping that many people here are familiar with it. S.Taylor
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