Of my chess books, one I particularily enjoy as a bathroom reader/ on-the-bus is

This collection of endgame puzzles (miniatures?) written by Bruce Pandolfini ramps up in degree of difficulty - Mr. Pandolfini assigns between 2 and 8 points for each problem.

These miniatures are deceptively difficult, and I thought to share a few with you in lieu of promoting the book, which can be purchased from Amazon.com here.

I'll post a few samples below.

#20
White to move, 3 points.

#57
Black to move, 4 points.

#97
Black to move, 6 points.

#105
Black to move, 8 points.

#108
White to move, 8 points.

nope

Forgive me for selfishly bumping this, but after the work I put in it was somewhat dissappointing that my only response was MPresident's "nope"; a response so devoid of intellect as to be genuinely baffling.

So, yeah. Maybe someone will actually take a shot at Mr. Pandolfini's miniatures this time around.

Im not smart enough to figure put if my answers are  the correct solutions.

You and me both, Cloy. I can't tell you how often I have to flip the page to see the solutions. If you've worked on one or two, just ask and I'll post the solution. I didn't want to do it before people put some effort in.. they're deceptively difficult, eh? But then again, these are those nasty endgames you said you have trouble with...

#1      Rh7 Ng6 Rh5++

#2    Bb4 followed by Re1++?

#4    (Am I missing something?)    f1=Q Rh5 Qf6+ Kh7 Qg7++

 Yes, for #20 (the first one I posted), Rh7 is the correct move.

Pandolfini says: saving the knight allows mate.
Setup: attraction
Tactic: mating net/trapping

 Yes. The answer to #57 (what you said is #2) is 1...Bb4.
Pandolfini says: White must lose the queen to delay mate.
Setup: Shielding
Tactic: Mating net

 Not correct yet.

Pandolfini says that if 1...f1/Q, then 2. Rf5+ and 2...Qxf5 is stalemate.

# 97    The black king marches toward g2, if the white king goes to the third rank then the black rook checks & the pawn promotes, if d3 or d4 then cxd3 or cxd3 e.p. Kxd3 Rd1+ Ke2 h1=Q, if the white rook cuts off a rank like after Kd6 Rh5 then the black king goes toward the rook and the second the rook leaves the h-file Rg1 followed by h1=Q (if the white rook tries to check the black king forever then the king goes toward the rook)

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We forgive you; do not claim this is the work that you put into these puzzles.  You simply grabbed the puzzles from his book and gave recognition.

I found the solution to #20!  I'd post it but someone else already did after I found it.

Oh totally, I didn't make the puzzles, that's abundantly clear. I meant the work of just putting the thread/links together.

Nice work at solving #20!

Oh, and NotKasparov, there's a clearer answer to #97, I'll post in a second (just finishing up a live game).

 Here's the solution Pandolfini gives for #97 NotKasparov:

1...c3

If 2. dxc3, Black wins with 2... Ra1  3. Rxh2 Ra2+

If 2. Kxc3 then 2....Rc1+, followed by promiting the h pawn.

If 2. Rh7+, there might follow 2...Kd6 3. Rh6+ Ke7 4. Rh7+ Kf6 5. Rh6+ Kg7 6. Rh3 cxd2 7. Kxd2 Ra1 8. Rxh2 Ra2+.

Setup: Deflection/clearence
Tactic: Promotion threat/skewer