Solitaire Chess in "Chess Life" Magazine

I've been reading "Chess Life" magazine from cover to cover the past few months, and I am really enjoying the monthly piece, called "Solitaire Chess."  It seems to be written by Bruce Pandolfini each month.  The piece features a classic game in a guess-the-move setup, and important moves come with relevant annotation.  Each correctly guessed move is awarded points, and then the total points scored correlates to an estimated USCF rating.  (Chess Master GM edition did a similar scored guess-the-move.)  I find these pieces (and those in the mentioned Chess Master) to be a ton of fun, motivating, and a great way to improve one's chess (and get in Master games).  Why don't more authors use this winning recipe?  In my opinion, the thing wrong with books like The Chess Tactics Detection Workbook is that there's no real assessment that adds interest to testing one's ability.  Putting a little something at stake, like points that correlate to a rating, make the exercise fun and it gives a way to assess improvement if you ever go through that particular game again.

Is anyone else a big fan of this recipe (i.e., guess-the-move with points scored per move and an associated rating)?  Aside from Chess Master GM edition and "Chess Life" magazine, are there other sources of these exercises?

For many years, Solitare Chess was the one column that I would read in Chess Life. Some of the columns have been gathered into book form. The structure is older than Pandolfini.

Do you know the name of the book?

Are you referring to guess-the-move, in general, or do you mean the shebang with points included?

The book is called Solitare Chess. I don't recall where, but several months ago I read an article about the series in Chess Life that named the creator of the column that Pandolfini took over. I remember working through it in the mid-1970s the first time that I ever read Chess Life and Review. It may be that was before Pandolfini was the author. I also have a vague recollection of another old book with the same format.

Today's a busy day with a NW Boxer Rescue event and then the Seahawks game. I may have time to poke around in my library tomorrow.

Found the older book on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Solitaire-Chess-I-A-Horowitz/dp/4871878236

Unfortunately this edition has been sullied by a later editor. If you search in used shops, you might might Horowitz's text without the poison of S.S.