The Chess Lover's Puzzle Book: Chess conundrums, puzzles and posers for every day of the year

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Roland Hall

The Chess Lover's Puzzle Book

Chess conundrums, puzzles and posers for every day of the year

Roland Hall

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Ivy Press
17 October 2023

Puzzles & quizzes; Chess

"As the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal famously said, ""Chess is the gymnasium of the mind"". With The Chess Lovers Puzzle Book your mind is in for an amazing workout! Chess is a game of strategy, planning and problem-solving. It is deceptively simple, and learning the rules means a lifetime of intellectual challenge for adults and children, in person or online. It has lasted centuries and shows no sign of fading any time soon. Quite the opposite in fact, as during the COVID-19 pandemic, chess became even more popular, particularly online. Chess players and puzzle-solvers have a lot in common, and now that is united in this unique new puzzle publication. All the puzzles relate to chess and the culture surrounding it, from classic chess puzzles to quizzes about famous players and matches. Puzzles include:

Classic chess conundrums: looking top-down at a board layout, the best move must be deduced.

Wordsearch: find the chess-champion names in the grid
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Crosswords: chess-themed questions and answers
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Placement puzzles: certain pieces only may be placed next to other in these visual conundrums.

Chess-doku: An original take on Sudoku: chess piece symbols.

Logic grids: Clues are given and puzzlers must fill in a grid and work out the missing answers using logic.

Visual puzzles: A square with a variety of chess pieces in it. One is duplicated, can you spot it? Other visual puzzles include Odd one out, Logic sequences and Spot the Difference.

Chess-code and other word puzzles: Chess pieces are substituted for letters; to solve the puzzle you must work out which is which. Other word puzzles include anagrams, missing letters and word jumbles.

Chess quizzes: great players, famous moves and epic matches all feature."

By: Roland Hall
Imprint: Ivy Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 153mm, Width: 235mm,
ISBN: 9780711289840
ISBN 10: 0711289840
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 17 October 2023
Recommended Age: From 0 to 99 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roland Hall worked as a Commissioning Editor in puzzle books for a number of years. He was responsible for book publishing with many bestselling puzzle brands, including Mensa, The Puzzler and Take A Break, and devised a number of highly popular themed puzzle books and packs on subjects as diverse as Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Pride and Prejudice and Dantes Inferno. He has written and contributed to many quiz and puzzle books, including Emoji Puzzles, The Great British Pub Quiz Book, Disney Brain Games (Studio Press) and the 2022 bestseller Wordle Challenge (Ivy Press).