Chess problems

I am re-reading the '300 Chess Problems' book from 'Pankaj Publications' after a long time and i find it to be exiting. The book has middle game scenarios that will enable either white or black to win within another 5 to 7 moves or enable either side to win major piece. So, it is all about clever thinking of 5 to 7 possible moves ahead w.r.t both sides.

It is like a Q&A book that we will be using during our Semester exams. The more you solve it, the more easier the exam would be . Similarly, the more the number of problems you solve from this book, the easier and flexible will be your mind as it depicts different environment w.r.t white/black for every problem that is depicted. Our mind will get accustomed to the wild environments & become stronger.

I used to read this book and try resolving the problems towards checkmate/removal of major piece . It was intially tough as i need to figure out all combinations of the 5 to 7 moves to checkmate. Figuring out either the Black would win or White would win was itself very interesting intially. Slowly, i was able to decode it easily and helped in increasing my Chess skills.

Garry Kasporov , Anatoly Karpov are my favourites in Chess. I have read about their tactics and moves in articles/books. I have not watched Viswanathan Anand matches, but i like him :-)