Download or read book 200 Perplexing Chess Puzzles written by Martin Greif and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Checkmate! These fun-filled brain teasers will increase your skill. Each chessboard puzzle has its pieces in a specially conceived difficult arrangement. You must complete a given task in a specific number of moves: "White to play and mate in five moves", for example. Some puzzles sharpen both your defensive and offensive acumen, and many focus on your endgame-the most important phase of chess. Solutions are in the back.