Square off against the best chess minds. You will need to put aside assumptions and be on your guard at all times to solve these ingenious chess conundrums that are based on such variants as:

• Billiards chess, where pieces can carom off the side of the board like pool balls.
• Cylinder chess, which imagines that the board is rolled into a tube.
• Circe chess, where captured pieces come back to life to fight again.
• Double-move chess, in which each player makes two moves in a row.

There are many diagrams, detailed solutions, and even a crash course on chess for beginners. Additionally, see if you can tackle The World's Hardest Chess Problem. Forget conventional chess problems and strategy. In this collection, rules were made to be broken!

Specifications:

• Author: Hochberg
• Book Type: Paperback, 2005
• Notation: Algebraic
• Pages: 128