200 PERPLEXING CHESS PUZZLES - Softcover

Checkmate! These fun-filled brain teasers will increase your skill. Each chessboard puzzle has its pieces in a specially conceived difficult arrangement. You must complete a given task in a specific number of moves: "White to play and mate in five moves, " for example. Some puzzles sharpen both your defensive and offensive acumen, and many focus on your endgame-the most important phase of chess. Solutions are in the back. 144 pages, 200 color illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.