How to Force Checkmate

by Fred Reinfeld

300 diagrammed positions, subdivided into situations of mate in one, two, or three moves, introduce you to a vast array of checkmate situations. For study, as entertainment during leisure moments or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486204391
• ISBN13: 9780486204390
• Release Date: June 1958
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Should be required for all high school chess teams

I've had this book for a couple decades and thought this was out of print. Now that I found it, I'm ordering a couple - to give to friends - This is a short book so players are not at all overwhelmed with the number of puzzles. You can get through it quickly and start improving and ENJOYING the middle game. Best way I believe to use this book is to continue working on each puzzle, up to 30-40 minutes, until you solve it. (This will increase your chess analyzing ability.) If you do not solve it, try it again the next day. It is amazing how often times you can solve one of this in just a few minutes the day after you found yourself stumpt. These are not hard puzzles so there should not be too many you have to go overtime to solve. For the harder ones, it might be worth it to take the time to set a board up.I really like the progression of how many times one puzzle's solution will lead to a solution with a similar theme in the next puzzle. One you go through it once, try it again - you'll be stumpted on ones you solved easily the first time. This book should be a requirement for all high school chess teams!!! It really gets you thinking, and appreciating the middle game. After completing the book, chess will become more exciting for you. This book will have you asking yourself during chess matches "can I get him in checkmate in 3 moves."

Forcefull!

How to force checkmate, the title is pretty much self explanatory and this is exactly what the book does. There is no better way to work on your tactical and attaking abillities than with chess puzzles. Reinfeld devides the book in three chapters #1 mates in one, #2 mates in two, and finally #3 mates in three. Each chapter starts you off with fairly easy puzzles and increases the difficulty gradually with each passing puzzle. So if youre a begginer I highly reccomend this book to you. The problems themselves are quite entertaining and the notes given with the answers are fairly interisting. Small warning this copy is in descriptive notation for those fearfull of those two words. This is by far my favorite chess puzzle book on attaking the king in my collection plus you cant beat the price.

A Must-Have for the Intermediate Player

I picked up a copy years ago for a quarter at a yard sale, and this book has, by far, been the most useful chess book I own. Reinfeld has put together a masterful collection of mate-in-x examples from real games. Starting with mate on the move and proceeding to the surprisingly complicated mate-in-three, these problems teach far more than simple checkmates; they infuse an understanding of how pieces can work together from strong positions. I've worked through this book several times, and each time my game has improved immediately and clearly. There may be more popular writers, and there may be more trendy titles, but this is the book to take the beginner to the intermediate level, and to fill in the gaps in the intermediate player's game.

Punchers Chance!

This book will give you a punchers chance to beat people better than you. There are 300 problems and you have to find the checkmate in 1,2, or 3 moves. Ive went through this book a bunch of times. And now I beat people who use to beat me. I will be playing a game and I'll see some of these positions from the book just jump out at me. And if you hit one of these babies its lights out! Game enders for sure. For such a low price you should give this book a chance. Its better than alot more expensive books. Ive got alot of use out of it. Its in Descriptive notation but its not a problem. Because you just have to follow 1-3 moves. Now if it was a game collection book then Descriptive Notation will slow you down. But in a puzzle book its no big deal. I recommend the Idiots guide to Chess, Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player, and this to get you started. And then move from those books to Lazlo Polgars book "5,334 Problems, Combinations, and Games".

Another Reinfeld Classic !

What a pity this book is not better known. It is one of the best books I have ever read on attacking the king. Reinfeld gives hundreds of master games in which masters beat their opposition with one,two and three move checkmates. The finishing touches on many of these mates is truly brilliant. He also gives a few alternate moves in the solutions. Anyone who masters the mates in this book, would find moves that would shock his opponents, in any phase of the game. The book teaches pattern recognition which is essential to finding attacks in all phases of the game. Highly recommended!