Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations

Does anyone know anything about this? Is it good, and if so, for what -- tactics? Is it still produced? Is there something better?

http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Encyclopedia-of-Chess-Combinations-77p3768.htm

Here's some information about it.  Scroll down, the revew for Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations is in the middle review.

Did they stop making it?

I don't know but it's on amazon used.

http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Chess-Combinations-4th-Ed/dp/8672970659/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1416120847&sr=8-2&keywords=encyclopedia+of+combinations

I know.

Does anyone know if they still produce the Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations? If not, why not? Is there something "new and improved?"

I received my copy of the Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations, 5th ed. (2014) last week. Here's a position from the book: http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2015/03/sacrifice-everything.html.

Books on tactics:

I have mixed feelings..ideally I want everything in print AND electronic.

Where can I purchase the ecopy?

Chess Informant posted a video on YouTube yesterday concerning the ecopy of this new book, but I cannot find it in their store (http://www.chessinformant.org/). I suspect that it will be available in a few days.

I bought the CD of the Anthology, 3rd ed. (2005) in 2009. I think that it has been unavailable for a couple of years now.

Why buy books on tactics when you have LOTS of epd and fen computer puzzles available for free...

Some people like tactics that were chosen specifically for their instructive value rather than a dump of positions an engine said contained a tactic.  

Of course, ChessTempo uses the Wisdom of Crowds to accomplish the former from the latter so you get the best of both worlds. :)

Check out LucasChess GUI. It comes with more tactics and mate puzzles than what you can possibly solve in your lifetime.

vittyvirus wrote:

Why buy books on tactics when you have LOTS of epd and fen computer puzzles available for free...

Because I can.

There is no free collection in the same league as the tactics problems in Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations, Manual of Chess Combinations, and Imagination in Chess (all visible in the photo above). The quality and depth of the problems in these three texts stand alone.

Some of the tactics books in my photo have been on my shelf longer than the Internet has existed. 

That's funny.

LucasChess. I have a Mac though.

Why did vittyvirus delete his comments? What was hidden there?!

The whole Encyclopedia of Chess Middlegames as an epd file. Well, it isn't copyrighted, but still Chess.com deleted my comment.

Encyclopedia of Chess Middlegames (1980) is copyright Sahovski Informator.

I don't think so. The version I posted had 879 problems.