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TonyRo God Member Offline I'm gonna crack your skull! Posts: 1846 Location: Cleveland, OH Joined: 11/26/07 Gender:	Re: Need book suggestions for a training method Reply #6 - 05/12/10 at 12:30:40	Post Tools	Print Post
	There's also Paata Gaprindashvilli's two books, Imagination in Chess, and Critical Moments in Chess. I'm a big fan of both, and both are quite difficult compared to other tactics/calculation books.


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huggy YaBB Newbies Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 21 Joined: 04/04/09	Re: Need book suggestions for a training method Reply #5 - 05/12/10 at 11:41:34	Post Tools	Print Post
	I can second the recommendation for Volokitin/Grabinsky - "Perfect Your Chess". An excellent book with a variety of problems of difficult strength, and highly instructive answers! Huggy


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Jupp53 God Member Offline be Posts: 988 Location: Frankfurt/Main Joined: 01/04/09 Gender:	Re: Need book suggestions for a training method Reply #4 - 05/12/10 at 11:27:55	Post Tools	Print Post
	If you know to read German: W. Smyslow - Die Kunst des Endspiels from Niggemann (b.e.) for 10 €. If you go through the diagrams for anaylzing them you will not know if it's strategical or tactical. In any case you get a bunch of really difficult positions for your level (which is about mine). G. Kasparjan - Dominations in 2345 endgame studies is another book with a bunch of difficult positions leading the reader through endgame, tactics and thinking all over the board.

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trw YaBB Moderator Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1414 Joined: 05/06/08 Gender:	Re: Need book suggestions for a training method Reply #3 - 05/12/10 at 11:05:44	Post Tools	Print Post
	My rating is approximately 2000 but I want stuff I have close to 0% chance of solving so FM/IM/GM puzzle strength. I have silman's work book and find it extremely easy. This is not what i'm looking for. Thanks for the other suggestions, I will check them out.


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Alias God Member Offline Posts: 1512 Location: East of the river Svartån Joined: 11/19/04	Re: Need book suggestions for a training method Reply #2 - 05/12/10 at 09:34:29	Post Tools	Print Post
	Most Dvoretsky books are hard. Another suggestion is Gaprindashvilis "Imagination in Chess". The Hort and Jansa positions were used in the swedish magazine "Schacknytt" long time ago. They were very instructive.

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Stigma God Member Offline There is a crack in everything. Posts: 3277 Joined: 11/07/06 Gender:	Re: Need book suggestions for a training method Reply #1 - 05/12/10 at 08:23:55	Post Tools	Print Post
	Well, "VERY hard" still depends on your level, so it's hard to suggest a book with precisely the right difficulty without knowing your rating. I have worked with 3 books that mix all kinds of positions the way I think you want (to not give away any hints): Cheng: Practical Chess Exercises Silman: The Reassess Your Chess Workbook Khelmnitsky: Chess Exam In my experience, most of the positions in the Cheng and Silman books can be solved by 2000-rated players. Khmelnitsky has all kinds of positions, from the very basic to positions not every GM will solve correctly. Silman has mostly positional exercises with tactics thrown in now and then, while Khelmnitsky's solutions usually depend on concrete calculation, particularly the harder ones. There are two more advanced books that I haven't yet studied myself: Volokitin/Grabinsky: Perfect Your Chess may be what you're looking for. They have positions intended for FM, IM and GM levels. The older Hort/Jansa: The Best Move (I have it in German; "Der beste Zug") is also most appropriate above 2000 from what I've heard. Anyone who has actually used it, feel free to correct me.
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trw YaBB Moderator Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1414 Joined: 05/06/08 Gender:	Need book suggestions for a training method 05/12/10 at 06:06:43	Post Tools	Print Post
	I want to set positions up on a chess board from a book that varies types of positions from middlegame to endgame with ideas that vary as well from tactics, to positional nuances to mates that contain questions such as 'find the move with its idea so that so and is better or so and so can find a draw.' The hope is I can set these positions up and analyze them then check my work against what the author thinks. My main desire from the book is 1) variety 2) VERY hard positions. I don't intend to get them right. This is the point of the training. Anyone's suggestions are welcome!


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