Solitaire chess

What's everyone's opinion on solitare chess...where you go over a game and guess the moves of one side. Pandolfini has the "Solitaire Chess" column in chess life, which I used to skip, but now realized that it's actually quite fun.

Does anyone know if his book with the same title is any good (basically a collection from the magazine I believe)?

That's what I do with any chess book. I will try to guess what the players will do next whenever I study a game score in a book. I will use an index card to cover up moves and keep me from seeing what move was played next while I try to guess what it is.

If you run out of chess life columns, I would try Zurich 1953 by Bronstein or Understanding Chess move by move by Nunn- pretty much anything that is well annotated can do the job though.

I have plenty of game collections, including 1953 Zurich. Do you have any methods of scoring or keeping track? That’s one thing I like with the columns is that he has the point system worked out for you. Any ideas how to keep track using game collections? Perhaps a percentage correct out of the moves guessed?

Originally posted by passedpawn22
I have plenty of game collections, including 1953 Zurich. Do you have any methods of scoring or keeping track? That’s one thing I like with the columns is that he has the point system worked out for you. Any ideas how to keep track using game collections? Perhaps a percentage correct out of the moves guessed?