Substitute book for 1001 Chess Combinations and Sacrifices

Hi, 

I do not want to work on 1001 Combinations and Sacrifices by Fred Reinfeld as many of it solutions have mistakes. So I have kept aside this book.

What would you suggest

Should I still stick with this book ?

or, If not could you recommend another book 

a) which is equally good

b) which has around 900+ positions

c) which is computer checked

d) which has similar levels of problem set.

If you have an e-book such as Kindle, you might want to look into "Tactics Time" by Tim Brennan and Anthea Carson, which I wrote about in another thread. It's only $4.99, and it has 1001 tactical examples drawn from ACTUAL AMATEUR GAMES.

I have done the first 100, and they're just excellent. Plus, they're not contrived positions where each piece has some function in the solution. They're actual "messy" positions such as you might find in your own chess.

Again with the e-book idea (though it's also in print) you might check out "1001 Deadly Checkmates" by John Nunn. It HAS been computer checked.

Would be interested to hear how The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book, and its sibling, The Giant Chess Puzzle Book (both with 1000 puzzles) compare to the Reifeld books if anyone knows.  Have almost picked up 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations a couple of different times while at B&N but was just too put off by the terrible printing!  Guess am just too visual a person to overlook this, even though I've heard many chess players say how good the puzzles themselves are.

Two books that I would recommend are "Chessercizes" by Bruce Pandolfini, and "Chess Tactics for Students" by John Bain. I go through these books about every 4 - 6 months, scoring myself as to solutions and, thereby, measuring my progress and focussing on my weaknesses. I also have the Bobby Fischer book and I would recommend it for newer players.

hey pls

The 5th edition came out a bit over a year ago. It now exceeds 3000 problems. http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2015/03/sacrifice-everything.html

If you don't mind squinting, or have a magnifying glass handy, you can check the Encyclopedia out here:

http://www.chessinformant.org/content/ecc5-flipbook/index.html#/1/

Also available as a download, which you can use with Chessbase, for training. There's a demo video here:

http://www.chessinformant.org/encyclopedia-of-chess-combinations-5-download-version/

No. Each edition retains the problems from prior editions, adding more. The editors have revised the organization scheme a few times. The sequence has changed a bit.

Ziryab, which would you recommend someone tackle first -

1. Learn the 2-mover tactics from Polgar's big book COLD (there are about 1000 of 'em and they're not all obvious, at least to me!) so you can basically insta-recognize them.

2. Start going through Reinfeld or a similar intermediate tactic book (as someone would normally do, with calculation,etc.)

I did about 1500 of the problems in Polgar's big book in 2001 or thereabouts, spending 15 -30 minutes per day. That was helpful. I gained a lot more from random training using Reinfeld's book (see http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2008/11/where-rubber-meets-road.html).

Polgar's are checkmates. Reinfeld's are tactics, usually winning a piece or an exchange. There's some overlap, but I would recommend doing both in tandem rather than sequence.

I also gained a lot from learning a few dozen thematic checkmate patterns. I wrote a pamphlet called "A Checklist of Checkmates" with 37 patterns and 139 exercises. You can buy it at http://shop.chess-university.com/collections/all

Cool thx. 

I've actually done most of the Reinfeld book but in terms of actually being able to resolve the problems quickly again, I can probably only get 75% of the ones I've done. Interestingly, doing the Reinfeld doesn't seem to help my rating much, surprisingly. (I thought it woudl help immensely but I stlil make the painful small flat-out blunders here and there, in winning positions.)

I still think it's very good though - part of the issue may be that I play almost entirely blitz when I play, so there's just not enough time to do the deeper calculation that I do when I'm solving Reinfeld problems. (Some of those problems are REALLY hard!)

Blitz is a killer, but it's fun.