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Has anyone got this book yet? It's a puzzle book for 'advanced' players..and besides the fact the writer Paata Gaprindashvili is far from inspirational..it's a really good puzzle book. It makes Fred Reinfelds puzzle books look like 1st grade reading material. Here's one of the 'easier' puzzles from the book to give you a taste.



White to move
Find the best continuation

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Ng5?

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Originally posted by Restless Soul
Has anyone got this book yet? It's a puzzle book for 'advanced' players..and besides the fact the writer Paata Gaprindashvili is far from inspirational..it's a really good puzzle book. It makes Fred Reinfelds puzzle books look like 1st grade reading material. Here's one of the 'easier' puzzles from the book to give you a taste.

[fen]r1bq1r1k/pp6/ ...[text shortened]... pp3/3P1p2/P1PR3N/2P2PPP/2K4R w - - 0 1[/fen]

White to move
Find the best continuation
I would say 1. Ng5

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1. Rg3?

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Originally posted by chessisvanity
Ng5?
Na, if white plays Ng5, Black moves his queen to the seventh row.

Rg3 fxg3 hxg3 is probably a better line - freeing up the rook

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Originally posted by Restless Soul
Has anyone got this book yet?
Yep, I have it. It is tough, but I rather suspect if I could find the time to work through it would find it beneficial. The puzzles are organized around concepts, that while they seem on the surface at least to be a bit more complicated than Silman's much vaunted "thinking technique," may prove a useful compliment to his work.

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Originally posted by Mad Mac MacMad
Na, if white plays Ng5, Black moves his queen to the seventh row.

Rg3 fxg3 hxg3 is probably a better line - freeing up the rook
Yes you're right. The bishop on c8 just messes up the Ng5 line

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Originally posted by Mad Mac MacMad


Rg3 fxg3 hxg3 is probably a better line - freeing up the rook
You have the right idea..kinda..there are some other moves to be made 1st to make that idea more forceful...

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Originally posted by Restless Soul
Has anyone got this book yet? It's a puzzle book for 'advanced' players..and besides the fact the writer Paata Gaprindashvili is far from inspirational..it's a really good puzzle book. It makes Fred Reinfelds puzzle books look like 1st grade reading material. Here's one of the 'easier' puzzles from the book to give you a taste.

[fen]r1bq1r1k/pp6/ ...[text shortened]... pp3/3P1p2/P1PR3N/2P2PPP/2K4R w - - 0 1[/fen]

White to move
Find the best continuation
1.Qh6+ Kg8 2.Rg3+ fxg3{...Kf7 3.Rg7+ Ke8 4.Qg6+ Rf7 5.Qxf7#} 3.Qg6+ Kh8 4.hxg3

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Originally posted by Mad Mac MacMad
Na, if white plays Ng5, Black moves his queen to the seventh row.

Rg3 fxg3 hxg3 is probably a better line - freeing up the rook
if 1.Rg3 then black still plays the queen to the 7th rank.

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Originally posted by tomtom232
1.Qh6+ Kg8 2.Rg3+ fxg3{...Kf7 3.Rg7+ Ke8 4.Qg6+ Rf7 5.Qxf7#} 3.Qg6+ Kh8 4.hxg3
Correct. After 1.Qh6+ Kg8 2.Rg3+!! fxg3 3.Qg6+ Kh8 4.hxg3 Qh4 {only move to avoid mate} 5.gxh4 Bf5 6.Qh6+ Kg8 7.Ng5 exd4 8.Rh3 Ne5 9.Rg3 Bg6 10.Ne6 Kf7 11.Nxf8 Rxf8 12. Qf4+ black resigned 1-0 Oll-Ulibin, Tbilisi 1982

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Here's a new position to study:



White to move
What's whites best continuation?

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Originally posted by Restless Soul
Here's a new position to study:

[fen]r3k2r/1pqn1pp1/3b1n2/PB1p1PP1/R3pB2/1N6/1PP5/3Q1RK1 w - - 0 1[/fen]

White to move
What's whites best continuation?
No one can figure this one out? I'll give you a hint: The first move is not capturing the knight....

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Originally posted by Restless Soul
No one can figure this one out? I'll give you a hint: The first move is not capturing the knight....
Rxe4+ is interesting.

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Bxd7+

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