Test your Chess IQ (under construction)

I wanna make sure proper credit is given. This is from a book I picked up in my local Library. Titled "Test Your Chess IQ" by Larry Evans, a Legend of US Chess. Published by Cardova Publishings. More details will be included later. The book contains 100x puzzles with 100x solutions. My main objective is to get the puzzles entered first, which I plan to do 2-5 puzzles at a time. I will update comments and alt moves about 10 puzzles at a time.

FIRST 10 PUZZLES

Thanks. There will be lots more, plus commentary, trying to resemble the book their from as much as I can. Check back often. 

Great puzzle set - thank you for posting it.

Your eighth diagram (Kasparov-Timman) is missing the White King on h1, and note Timman actually won.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1546255

I have that book with same exercises but title changed in second edition to "How Good is your chess-Rate yourself in 100 Positions" by same publishers. I am not sure if they have revised any content / answer or not. So don't buy if you have earlier one.

In the position Kasparov - Timman I wonder were the white king is. For the rest nice positions.

I'm clearly missing something subtle with Grigore vs. Pinter.  There's a pointless exchange and then a pointless rook move and then "Solved" randomly pops up.  Why?  Even Stockfish rates it as pretty much evens.  Please put me out of my ignorance!

UNFORTUNATELY... I no longer have the book! After all, it was only a Library check out, and I already started accruing late fees on that book and one about chess endings. Further I already expended all 4x renewals for the book. At my library, for reading material, they allow you to renew it up to 4x, then they don't let you til after it's returned. So, therefore I currently do not have the book! 

However, I remember, from what I read, if I recall correctly... @kmbro... That position, black was threatening the c4 pawn, and would have gained a pawn up in a multi exchange trade off. I don't remember all the moves, but some how, the Kn on f6 had something to do with it. Or... It might been the 2d Kn on the 8 column, that had influence on the c4 exchange I believe, and the move Bx(N)f6 forced Nxf6 taking B, but pulled the knight from having opp to help?? Again, I don't know exactly how without the book for reference. 

Thanks for that.  So the objective of the puzzle was to turn something potentially negative (favouring black) into something neutral.  The BxN exchange pulls the d-Knight from c5 and the R move gives White more pressure on that rank.  I'll have to play through what might have happened without that exchange, because it's one of the first things I saw.

I found a used copy of the book on Amazon for a fiver so it's in the post to me!  Looks like you could get one for less than your library fines too - https://www.amazon.com/Test-Your-Chess-Larry-Evans/dp/1580420273/.  I might be persuaded to help you enter the puzzles.  One thing, though - I really don't like the chess pieces you've selected, can we switch to the standard chess.com set? :-)

tough ones

wow it's so hard

The second one, Pomar vs. Boudras, Olat 1974, seems to have several solutions?

These were pretty cool

I think you forgot to add the white king in Kasparov vs Timman, Rotterdam 1999.

The point is 1.Kd6 loses for white, so (almost) any move that isn't that.

Pretty difficult but we'll made

huh

white king doesn't exist in kasparov vs timann position lol