The best advice for chess players who want to improve quickly is: get better at tactics! Simply because the vast majority of amateur games is decided through tactics you will immediately start beating more opponents when you improve your tactical skills. Experienced Russian Grandmaster Jakov Neishtadt has selected those examples from the games of masters that have the biggest instructional value for club players. In the first part of the book Neishstadt teaches a systematic course on the most important tactical themes. The second part consist of an exam with hundreds of tests from real-life chess, in random order so as not to give unwelcome hints on how to solve them. The solutions are not just lists of moves, but include instructive prose.
What you need is a Chess Tactics Antenna! This trailblazing book by award-winning author Neiman provides a set of tools that enables the average club player to determine the moment he needs to look for win.
In this original and thought-provoking book, Andres D. Hortillosa explains his ever-evolving system of chess improvement. If you are serious about improving your chess this book is for you.
H. So. Ex 2.15 Marcinkiewicz-Zindel email 2002 With clouds forming around Black's king, a stock blow on h6 starts the carnage: 1.9.xhó! gxhô 1...2xe1 2.9.xg7 oal 3.2 g5+ og84.? hot! oxg75.2 f$4 og8 6.2. e6+! and mate; 1...obó 2.9.e3.
Introduces the game of chess, pieces and how they move, and classic strategies and tactics from each stage of the game.
In Chess Tactics for Champions, Polgar gives insight into the kind of thinking that chess champions rely on while playing the game, specifically the ability to recognize patterns and combinations.
... cxd5 – which would have been harmless because of 24...cxd5 covering the vital a4 square with the bishop. Timman. –. Wade. London 2008 1 e4 d6 2 d4 c6 3 f4. Harutjunyan – Khakimov Kharkov 2008 a) 4...♘d5 5 c4 ♘b6 6 ♘c3 with a space.
Offers a guide to important chess techniques and principles to help players develop the skills needed to beat opponents, from the basics of play to specific tactics and strategies, as well as a look at the world of competitive chess.
Tactics Time 2 presents 1001 fresh and instructive positions that Tim and Anthea have assembled from real amateur chess games, leaving you able to spot relatively simple patterns like a knight fork, an overloaded piece or a weak back rank.
Discusses a variety of chess tactics, including fork, skewer, opening and closing lines, and pawn promotion.
Why play in a fog, only hoping that your opponent will blunder when International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan can show you how to put the tactics of the worlds chess legends to work for you.