The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

Has anyone read this book? If so is it worth picking up?

If you like deduction and logical reasoning,yes.
If you're looking to improve your game,no.

It's mostly retrograde problems I believe, but I might be corrected. I guess "Sherlock Holmes" was added in the title for commercial purposes...

Retro puzzles!Correct!Them odd backward things,couldn't remember what those were called.
Not my kind of thing 😞

i enjoyed it. there's a companion volume by the same author called something like Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Nights (Knights?). as someone said, it's worth picking up if you like logic puzzles. i got a kick out of solving them.

Originally posted by dirtysniper
Has anyone read this book? If so is it worth picking up?

Originally posted by heinzkat
It's mostly retrograde problems I believe, but I might be corrected. I guess "Sherlock Holmes" was added in the title for commercial purposes...

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Absolutely. Great book!

Originally posted by greenpawn34
I knew you would like it.

I bet you read it starting from the last page. 😉