Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 19:53:07 09/22/03
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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 Thanks for that review. I almost bought that book, but chose "The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book" by John Emms instead. Now I'm glad. The Emms one is a nice book indeed (Gambit Publications Ltd.). I was swayed somewhat by reviewers at Amazon.com and by the fact that it has more puzzles. And I think it cost less. :-)
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