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...