Author: martin fierz
Date: 04:10:12 09/21/03
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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 nunn's book is for strong players. in the introduction he writes: "the average difficulty of these puzzles is relatively high. [...] many of the worthwhile things in life involve a degree of effort - improving your chess by going through this book is one example!" i can only tell you that i liked this book a lot, exactly because the puzzles are not the "check-check-mate" type of puzzles that you find in all other books. if the book is too hard for you, i suggest you try "the ultimate chess puzzle book" by john emms, which is also a nice book, but not quite as tough. cheers martin
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