Chessercizes: New Winning Techniques for Players of All Levels

by Bruce Pandolfini

From America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit comes a unique and challenging chess exercise book for players of all levels.

Faced with actual positions from recent tournaments and match play, readers are asked to make the winning move for some of the world’s best players, including world champion Gary Kasparov, former champion Anatoly Karpov and future stars such as Hungary’s Polgar sisters and Gata Kamsky from the US.

Problems are arranged into chapters by tactical themes, so that readers can focus on related attacks and combinations. For beginners and children, it also features a “Little Chessercizes” section with lighter examples that can help less experienced players.

Genres: Chess, Games

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Bruce Pandolfini (born September 17, 1947) is an American chess author, teacher, and coach. A USCF national master, he is generally considered to be America’s most experienced chess teacher. As a coach and trainer, Pandolfini has possibly conducted more chess sessions than anyone in the world. By the summer of 2015 he had given an estimated 25,000 private and group lessons.

(Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Brad Bevers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun read. The author drops you in on 100 famous chess matches where the action pivots, and you have to try and figure out the best move. Enjoyed reading this one. Fun to see some famous games played out and a good way to learn chess notation too.

[Alan Tomkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun chess puzzles that train your mind to see and understand positional chess play.