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DO THE PIECES MOVE??
going through it now. putting every single puzzle on a real board. yes it takes longer but I am already recognizing themes in real games. awesome book.
WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE BOOK. WE WANT TO KNOW IF THE PIECES MOVE ON A KINDLE DEVICE ??? I'M GONNA KILL SOMEBODY IF WE DON'T GET A YES/NO ANSWER
I just found out the answer!!...and I'm not going to tell you!!
Can you spew out some more random copyright dates, completely out of context, that have nothing to do with my questions about the book and kindle/ipad/pieces moving and derail the thread further? 
How about the dates of any patents?
Is that because your a monster or just a chicken?? Dam! look at your true colors heh? When your tired, your ready to use help from anybody. Now that you've had a good night's rest, look at your gratitude and respect. You got any more insults you wanna get out of your system?? Go have fun with your new toy kid. I feel sorry for the parents that raised you.
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
Is that because your a monster or just a chicken??
Yes.
Your thread was a test, and you failed miserably. Here you go ass-hole, http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/interactive-chess-ebooks
@cloudy: Thanks. It still sounds valuable though. I think the functionality of moving of the pieces would be helpful for some e-books (e.g., opening books etc.).
@Ronald McDonald: What new toy? The iPad 1 my boss gave me in 2009? What test? Why do you keep posting random links and copyright dates in my thread that are out of context, have zero explanation, and don't answer my very specific questions or even have relevance thereto? Are you on drugs? If you don't know the answer to my questions then go away and stop wasting electricity and bandwidth calling me juvenille names. Use the time to learn how to spell. I don't want input from you. What is wrong with you?
Go away Ronald, before I place a Happy Meal in your happy place. Name calling and profanity will not be tolerated.
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I leave for two months and look what you guys did to this thread. (HAHAHAHA)
@wu1010: I thought you died. Sent you multiple messages asking how the thematic Fishcher openings were working out for you.
I took a break. Hahahahaahah, you thought I died. 
There is a mistake in one of the mate in two puzzles..... .... its actually mate in one. It's around 1170. Keep an eye out for it!
There must be an errata for that (and other well-known chess books) floating around.
It's a good book. The dead tree version is quite unwieldy. I actually sliced the pages out of my copy, three-holed them, and put them into separate binders.
I got about halfway through before deciding I wanted to work on tactical problems that weren't mates.
Susan Polgar's "Chess Tactics for Champions" is good in that regard. Some might think the problems are (mostly) too easy, but I like that. It comes close to the ideal of tactics as pattern recognition instead of tricky puzzles to solve.
May 1, 2017
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yyoochess wrote:
Senchean wrote:
I have it and it's fantastic. First it was written by Juddit Polgar's father and it's how he trained them to play chess.
Though they put Laszlo's name on it, I've heard that it was actually written by Susan Polgar while she was still a teenager.
I saw Susan make this claim somewhere on the web about ten years ago or so. I don't have the link now. At the end of the introduction, Laszlo Polgar thanks, "my daughters for their help in professional matters." Aside from this partial sentence, he claims to be the author. In any case, there should be no doubt that the structure of the book stems from the pedagogy he developed to produce chess masters.
i just ordered this book
it will be my third tactic book (chess tactics for students and back to basics- tactics)
working with the books and a real board complements using the online tools in my case so i thought the polgar book would keep my chess coffers full for awhile
it will be my third tactic book (chess tactics for students and back to basics- tactics)
working with the books and a real board complements using the online tools in my case so i thought the polgar book would keep my chess coffers full for awhile
May 1, 2017
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#39
Chicken_Monster wrote:
Is this worth getting? Some people swear by it. Some say it is garbage.
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and GamesAug 13, 2013
by László Polgár and Bruce Pandolfini
I think it is worth getting, especially when you can find it for the price of a latte. http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-polgar-brick-ebook-edition.html
How would you recommend using this book (in terms of proportion of study time spent)? It is like a tactics book, but is highly focused on mate in twos. Are these as valuable to study as general tactics problems? It seems like it will take a lot of time to work through this book - that time could be spent in a book with more varied tactics. Is the time better spent working through a general tactics book vs the mate in twos in this book?
I'm afraid cloudychess is in the i-cloud. Your gonna need a different device for that.