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

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This well-known maxim may sound strange but is really just an exaggerated basic if you want to win more games, nothing works better than training combinations. A wonderful mix of various tactical motifs and a great assembly of exercises that really should be in every chess book collection. Naturally, I‘d like to keep up this type of dedicated study after the current project is finished, but I‘m unsure whether it would be smarter to continue along the tactics route (1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players would be the obvious suggestion) or shift focus to other areas of the game, such as strategy or endgames, both of which I‘ve never studied seriously before. If you want an excellent introduction text to tactical motifs and ideas, look up Chess Tactics from Scratch — this one's just a big pile of instructive puzzles, which is totally fine. However, checkmate is much easier to achieve when we have an advantage in material, namely more pieces.

The chapter divisions are also gone, which is a problem because they provide the instructions for the puzzles - without any instructions, solving the puzzles that involve adding a named piece is impossible. The end of the book has a chapter with mixed motifs a grab bag of everything deflection, mate in 3, removing the defender, double attack, back rank weakness, opening a file ect.I love the fact the it is divided in two parts: One classical with puzzle organized by theme and the other part an revision with no hint (randomn puzzles).

Black has the luxury of choosing between two moves that not only save both his threatened pieces, but which also win the white rook. All of this is to say that a little bit of help on the way to the solution is not such a bad thing, but it might annoy people on the stronger end of the book's target audience. com) and unsurprisingly, it improved my chess a ton – especially compared to the random bs I had been doing before. If this celebrated observation is true for the master, how much more so for beginners and casual players! Then I saw if Qxd3, then the queen is no longer covering the c1 square so after Rc1+ Rxc1 Qxd3+ Ka1 Qxd4 is winning.n\nThis one is similar in both concept and appearance to Frank Erwich’s "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true,"link":"https://www. 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.

n\nThis book would benefit not just the beginners of the title, but also inexperienced players, casual and lower rated players. First of all, I've never seen a tactics book that doesn't explain the basic concepts of the different tactics. g. by the time we reach chapter six – defend your pieces – we encounter the likes of picking the right square, trading the attacker, pinning the attacker, defending a critical square, protecting your piece and counterattack. Sharpen your tactics: 1125 brillant sacrifices, combinations and studies by Anatoly Lein and Archangelsky. If you are new to the game, check out /r/chessbeginners and before posting here please read our rules: https://www.This book certainly has some downsides for people who prefer puzzles to be mixed into one big pile with no help whatsoever, though almost a third of the book is dedicated to the "mixed motifs" sections. He is an experienced trainer of amateur players of all levels and has been the National Youth Coach of the Dutch Chess Federation. So back to the point, for those of you who have gone through this book, is it supposed to be this difficult? White initiates a combination that includes deflection and a pin; Black has no choice but to part with his rook to avoid checkmate.

It is your responsibility to make sure that your operating equipment is compatible with the relevant software or video DVD before purchasing and that software purchased is functionally adequate for your needs. 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.

There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by a some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises. But i kinda wanted some review from players, here, of what they thought on particular books i listed. Chess masters and trainers 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. Not tactical themes, but less leading themes like "defense and counter" or "endgames" and are gradually more difficult. discussed in the following chapters; for example, a discovery is no more than a sophisticated form of double attack.