Sit and Solve Chess Problems


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With their amusing shape, great content, and popular price, these humorous compilations are a must-have on every puzzler's shelf.




Sit & Solve Chess Problems


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Canadian Chess Problems ...


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The Complete Chess Workout


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In this book, tactics expert Richard Palliser presents the reader with an enormous 1500 chess puzzles, all checked for accuracy by the latest computer engines. There is something for players of all levels here: many basic tactics forks, pins, skewers and checkmates to appeal to beginners and improvers, and a considerable number of brain-teasers that will tax even the strongest of players."




Chess


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Presents a collection of instructional situations and chess moves.




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. ,




Pawn Power in Chess


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Profoundly original book demonstrates how basic relationships of one or two pawns constitute winning strategy. Multitude of examples illustrate theory. 182 diagrams. Index of games.




Improve Your Chess Tactics


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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.




Predator at the Chessboard


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Chess tactics explained in English: the website www.chesstactics.org in book form. This volume is the first in a two-part set. The two books together contain over a thousand examples organized in unprecedented detail. Every position is accompanied by a commentary describing a train of thought that leads to the solution; these books thus are the ideal learning tool for those who prefer explanations in words to long strings of notation. This first volume provides an introduction to tactics and explains forks and discovered attacks. (Book II covers pins and skewers, removal of the guard, and mating patterns.) A hardcover version is also available.




500 Chess Puzzles, Mate in 1, Beginner Level


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This book of chess problems will certainly be of great benefit to beginners and children. By practicing day after day, they will progress, in a certain way, using the best tactical schemes.

In chess, tactical play is crucial. Any strategy, patiently built, can be instantly ruined by a tactical move. The strategy is a general plan that requires many moves to be realized. On the contrary, the tactic is a short-term operation that contributes to the achievement of the strategy. The tactic usually involves few, but incisive shots. In general, the tactic is for checkmate or material gain. To do this, it often uses attacks such as fork, pinning, deflection, overload, sacrifice, etc. To improve your tactical sense, it is necessary to practice regularly to solve diagrams such as those presented in this series. The following 500 problems are progressive, they should allow you to reach a new level in your progression.

Organization of this chess exercise book:

  • 500 problems with solutions,
  • mate in 1,
  • progressive difficulty,
  • perfect for beginners,
  • perfect for kids.

In the same series:

  1. 500 Chess Puzzles, Mate in 1, Beginner Level
  2. 500 Chess Puzzles, Mate in 2, Beginner & Intermediate Level
  3. 500 Chess Puzzles, Mate in 3, Intermediate Level
  4. 500 Chess Puzzles, Mate in 4, Advanced Level
  5. 500 Chess Puzzles, Mate in 5, Advanced & Expert Level
  6. 500 Chess Puzzles, Mate in 6, Expert Level

The results of studies on chess are spectacular. In children and also in adults, it improves concentration and problem-solving ability. To do this, the best practice is to solve chess exercises. This is what this book proposes. So, combine the useful with the pleasant!