1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate by Fred Reinfield Chess eBook Chessbase

1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate
Fred Reinfield

This is an eBook, in ChessBase format.
You can load it with Fritz software, or the free ChessBase reader:

ChessBase Light 2007

www.chessbase.com/download/cblight2007/index.asp

It contains:
*The database of 1001 positions of Checkmate combination,
*Training mode, you can try to make the winning move in a predetermined time.
*All the solutions and variations, tested by computer.

Pattern recognition is a very important skill in chess both for attack
and defense. This book drills in this very matter testing your ability
to recognize a pattern and to calculate the variations leading to
checkmate.

I solved each and every puzzle in this book and I can honestly say that
the skills gathered were put to the test almost inmediately: I was
engineering simple checkmates and executing them over the board after reading the book.
Objectively speaking the problems range of
difficulty varies a lot. Some of the problems are as simple as
calculating a mate in one while others require you to find a ten moves
solution. Is this good? Sure it is! A plain diagram with the words
"white or black to move" not telling you how long is your path to
victory is in my opinion the best way to train tactics. [In fact, I
would say that Reinfeld should not even divide the material in themes
like queen sacrifice, attack to the uncastled king, etc.]
A single pass over Reinfeld's problems is just not enough and the book
demands a second or even third "reading." Why? Because it will save
time and suffering in actual games...