1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts, Too

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com) and unsurprisingly, it improved my chess a ton – especially compared to the random bs I had been doing before. They allow you to find solutions for puzzles that might have stumped you otherwise, in the same way that grouping puzzles by tactical motifs present might. Chess masters Franco Masetti and Roberto Messa have done both: they explain the basic tactical ideas AND provide an enormous amount of exercises for each different theme. Nice touch from this book is that they seem to give you the game from where they took the problem out. of the thickness of Nunn's 1001 Deadly Checkmates, for example), which it achieves by cramming 12 diagrams onto each page, and is conveniently portable.

I was thinking maybe I should start with the beginner's edition of the series instead, but I'm a bit hesitant to do that because I feel like the problems might be too easy. All our staff play chess and we are always happy to advise you on the products that will best suit your needs. Even thought it has a beginner in its title,this is harder than Chess Tactics for Champion by Polgar. It took me about 3 minutes to see it, calculate the variations, look for any defense I missed and double check everything. As the author says in his preface (his emphasis): ‘"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Where should you go if you want to become a tactical wizard?I can personally vouch for it and say that I am now a sharper tactician than I was before I started the book and a better chess player overall. I'll post a few books that I've collected on my wish list that seem to be advised at least once on this site.

Deflection is a tactical motif whose objective is to force a piece away from the defence of another piece or a key square. In these valuable exercises you have to place a piece on the board so as to create checkmate or a winning position.White's pawn sacrifice blocks the f4-b8 diagonal and the black king was unable to remain within the square of the passed pawn as it marched towards promotion. But it seemed appropriate to me to but them together since they're from the same author and about their tactical content seem to complete each other.

This book has been my first serious, focused, daily effort to work on my chess (before that it‘s been all Youtube videos, some sporadic online puzzles here and there and occasionally going over master games on chessgames. This is all well and good, but those seeking very in-depth calculation training from this book might be disappointed. All about the game of chess, including discussions on professional tournaments, game analysis and theory.In this position, which is almost identical to the preceding one, Black can save both pieces with the simple move 1 . You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It goes without saying that it is rare that in a single move one's opponent can save or protect two attacked pieces.

There is also the 'double threat' motif, which arises when at least one of our attacks does not involve the threat of material gain, but instead another type of threat such as checkmate. Author Franco Masetti and International Master Roberto Messa do an effective job selecting informative puzzles that, when known by heart, make similar positions simple to navigate.

If you expect me to look at a position on my own, don't print the solution right under it (or preferably on the same spread at all.