Checkmates for Three Pieces
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Enthusiasts who know the basic rules of chess and want to improve their endgame calculation
- Children and parents studying three-piece mates who need plenty of positions
- Readers who prefer workbooks for focused training over reading theory
- Grassroots chess teachers who need low-cost electronic teaching materials
Not a good fit for
- Complete beginners who do not know chess moves or rules
- Advanced players seeking systematic opening theory or middlegame strategy
- Readers who prefer explanatory text and are unwilling to set up the board and calculate
Reading tips
- Prepare a physical board or chess software; work out each position independently before checking the answer.
- Practice in batches by chapter, ten to fifteen positions at a time, to stay focused on calculation.
- Record wrong answers separately and redo them a week later to spot patterns in similar mistakes.
- Read alongside a basic mating manual: first consolidate queen and rook mates before starting this book.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Fishburne, William Brett is an author about whom limited public information is available; his nationality, dates of birth and death, and full English name cannot be confirmed. Judging from the two works recorded in the catalog, Checkmates for Three Pieces and Checkmates for Four Pieces, his writing centers on checkmating techniques in chess endgames, with separate volumes discussing mate-in-three and mate-in-four positions according to the number of pieces. This kind of subject belongs to practical chess training literature, typically combining diagrammed positions with solution explanations to help readers become familiar with piece coordination and ideas for mating the king. Although biographical details are scarce, the works themselves show a clear intention of series-based compilation, aimed at chess enthusiasts seeking to improve their tactical calculation and offering some instructional reference value among endgame exercise books.
