Author: KarinsDad
Date: 10:29:43 01/13/99
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On January 13, 1999 at 08:39:31, Gaetan GARCIA wrote: > Hi all ! > > I'm fairly new to chess, so please excuse me if my question is highly >classical and has been answered elsewhere. > > I have a lot of fun trying to solve chess problems, but I prefer >to work on situations which arose in real games and find that 'mate in x' >are often fairly artificial. I was able to find various resources of >problems on the net but I noticed that the question is always to find a >winning move. Do you know where I could find a 'mixed' set of problems >where the best move sometimes leads to a win and sometimes 'only' to >avoid immediate defeat. It would be ideal if the problem definition did >not mention whether the best move leads to a win or not. Unfortunately, >due to my poor level, I could not do without the solutions... > > Thanks for any help. > > Gaetan The following is a nice internet site, however, it has the down side of only giving the first move of the solution, so if you haven't figured it out, then you'll have to use a chess program (or a buddy) to help you figure it out (also, I have discovered a very few number of these problems to have alternative solutions or the solution has a flaw with Fritz4 analysis). http://www3.traveller.com/scripts/chess_problems/ Also, there are a lot of combinational books on the market which have thousands of fairly difficult positions for about $20 or $30 (US). I have found these to be immensely helpful (usually while going to the toilet) in my tactical improvement. They are also more portable than internet resources. Most of these books have a variety of positions, some which lead to mate, some a material advantage, and some a material equalization (i.e. the side to move is down). I have yet to see such a book which has positions which lead to a positional advantage (I take it the authors have a harder time explaining it, but I wish one of them would get the hint someday). You can get them at local bookstores, at the USCF online (http://www.uschess.org), or at an online bookstore such as Amazon. Good Luck :) KarinsDad
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