Author: Christian Kongsted.
Date: 01:48:36 09/21/03
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Hi Stuart, Yes, I went through all the puzzles. It was very interesting, but also difficult. I read a review of GM Peter Heine saying that he did not score very well in the test section. However, it is a good book for strong players. Weaker players should start somewhere else. 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
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