Solitaire chess

by I.A. Horowitz

paperback

Genres: Chess, Nonfiction, Games

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

Israel Albert Horowitz

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was one of the first chess books I ever read. Super creative concept. 62 classic games. You play white and have to guess the next move based on the black moves given. You cover up the list of moves on the page and then work your way through the game one move at a time. No analysis, but you get to play against 62 GMs. Played through this many, many times and it was the first book that taught me how to elevate my play.

[Steven Peterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have had two separate occasions where my interest in chess peaked--once in high school and, again, in graduate school. I purchased this while in graduate school.

This is an interesting work. Solitaire chess? What's that? You play White and the moves of White and Black are in columns next to one another. You cover the actual White moves and make your own response to Black. Then, you compare what you did with what White actually did. There is a scoring system here, so that the reader can see how s/he did.

In the end, I didn't find this quite as useful as I had hoped, but it is an interesting way of comparing your chess moves against those of masters.

[Charles · Rating 3 out of 5]

A thin little treasure hidden between two books on the bookshelf

[Corey Butler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solitaire chess is a fun way to improve your strategic thinking in chess. Pandolfini's book and columns are more thoroughly annotated, but Horowitz gets credit for first coming up with the idea.