Advanced Chess


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This book begins with a practical step-by-step advanced tactical guide with comprehensive advice on attack, defence, planning ahead and the importance of sacrifice. There are detailed sections on the three key phases of the match - the opening, the middlegame and the endgame - and how to play each to best effect. Follow in the footsteps of grandmasters with immortal games broken down and analysed move-by-move. Advice is given on where to play competitive chess, both in clubs and tournaments and against the computer. Different methods of game play are explored; expand your chess horizons with hectic and exciting rapidplay or blitz games, or embrace the importance of taking time over your moves with a slow and stimulating game of correspondence chess.




Chess Tactics for Champions


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Susan Polgar became the first female Grandmaster at age 15—and it wasn't luck that got her there. Her use of tactics, combinations, and strategy during her games gave her the critical advantage she needed against her opponents. 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. With coauthor Paul Truong, Susan Polgar teaches the tactics she learned from her father, Laszlo Polgar, one of the world's best chess coaches. • Teaches players how to calculate the effect of a move in order to gain an edge over an opponent • For intermediate to advanced chess players of all ages




Forcing Chess Moves


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Charles Hertan, an experienced chess coach from Massachusetts, has made an astonishing discovery: the failure to consider key winning moves is often due to human bias, since your brain tends to disregard many winning moves because they are counter-intuitive or look unnatural. Charles Hertan?s radically different approach is: use COMPUTER EYES and always look for the most forcing move first! By studying forcing sequences according to Hertan?s method you will develop analytical precision, improve your tactical vision, overcome human bias and staleness, and enjoy the calculation of difficult positions. By recognizing moves that matter, you will win more games!




Back to Basics: Tactics


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Chess Tactics Can Be Fun! This book is an introduction to the various kinds of basic chess tactics. With instructional material, examples, and problems of all types, the subject of chess tactics is covered comprehensively. There are approximately 500 examples ranging from too easy to very difficult! Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun! This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about - and benefiting from - the recurring patterns of tactics. It is well established that the study of basic tactics is probably the single most important thing any beginner can do to improve at chess. This book will help you do that!




Tune Your Chess Tactics Antenna


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If only real life were like a book on chess tactics! But during a game you are on your own, and nobody will whisper in your ear that you have reached a position that is, in fact, a tactical puzzle and all you have to do is solve it. What you need, discovered Emmanuel Neiman in his long career as a chess trainer, is a way to read the signals which indicate that, somewhere in the position you are looking at, there is a tactical blow. 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. ,




1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players


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Chess is 99% tactics. This celebrated observation is not only true for beginners, but also for club players (Elo 1500 – 2000). If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training your combination skills. There are two types of books on tactics: those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain lots of exercises. FIDE Master Frank Erwich has done both: he explains all key tactical ideas AND provides an enormous amount of exercises for each different theme. Erwich has created a complete tactics book for ambitious club and tournament players. He teaches you how to reach the next level of identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, recognizing patterns of combinations, visualizing tricks and calculating effectively. Erwich has also included a new and important element: tests that will improve your defensive skills. 1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players is not a collection of freewheeling puzzles. It serves as a course text book, because only the most didactically productive exercises are featured. Every chapter starts with easy examples, but no worries: the level of difficulty will steadily increase.




Chess Tactics


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Are you ready to up your game and go from chess chump to chess master? Chess is one of the oldest and often times most difficult games to master. Depending on the moves you make it's like a puzzle with a thousand different possibilities, but this book will teach you advanced techniques by having you solve puzzles so you will be able to anticipate absolutely anything that your opponent throws at you. This book is broken down in three parts with puzzles that range from easy to hard and will help you to build chess skills that will last you a life time, will teach you, step by step how to improve your game so that you can beat anyone you play against. Building off of volume 1 this book shows you advanced techniques by using puzzles so that you will better understand the board and the game inside and out. What kind of puzzles are in this book: -Over 300 advanced chess techniques-Solutions to these techniques if an opponent tries them against you-You'll learn how to get to take someones king in two or less moves-And so much more! Chess is one of the most rewarding board games there is. Played all over the world competitively and leisurely you'll learn by being able to solve these puzzles in your own time how how to never lose again. By learning and understanding how the techniques in this book work and why they work, you'll be safe guarding yourself against ever being surprised at your opponents moves again. It's time for you to up your game so that you can take on more challenging opponents and get better with your own technique. Chess is about expanding your mind to new horizons and understanding opportunity when it's in front of you. This book will teach you how to use advanced techniques so that you can learn to spot those opportunities. If you are ready to learn advanced chess techniques used by champions all over the world then you need to get this book today!




A Course in Chess Tactics


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This book fills a valuable niche in the ambitious player's library. The authors present each major tactical theme in turn, explaining how it works and providing inspiring examples. They then explain how you can spot the idea in your own games and use it to your advantage.




Extreme Chess Tactics


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