Title: Not a good value!
Product review: Little can be added to the insightful review below. The book seems to have been an exercise in computer problem-solving that someone (incorrectly) thought would make a good book. In addition to the book cited by the author below, I recommend Fred Reinfeld's 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate (but read Renaud & Kahn's The Art of the Checkmate first!), 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations (also Reinfeld's), Lazlo Polgar's Chess, and DuMont's The Basis of Combination in Chess. The Renaud & Kahn, Reinfeld, and DuMont books are inexpensive and offer a far greater value than The Big Book of Combinations.
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