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

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With enough space and minimal distraction from other pieces, the ending is the perfect environment for learning tactical patterns and extending your calculation horizon"},{"insert":"’, and ‘"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"The aim of this book is to teach you the most important tactical weapons available and make sure that you can apply them in your games"},{"insert":". clearance) a tactic that re­ sults in the opening of a fi le, rank or diagonal, with short term tactical consequences for the opponent pin the movement of a piece is impossible or restricted as it is on the same line of attack as the king or a more valuable piece removing the defender ( a . It's also very nice to have the chapters on "Mixed Motifs" where each problem can have several tactical ideas and you don't have a hint like "look for a skewer. However, checkmate is much easier to achieve when we have an advantage in material, namely more pieces.

Players up to 2000 Lichess rapid can certainly get good use out of it, but from there the book's value peters out, as most puzzles will be trivial for players much stronger than that. I started the workbook as an 1100-1200 rated player (having played for about 4 months) and I found this immensely helpful. discovered check the movement of a piece un­ masks a check by a second piece double check the movement of a piece that checks the king u nmasks another check from a second piece double threat the most im portant single concept in tactics : a move by a single piece creates two problems simu ltaneously ( e . We have thus consulted leading teachers and masters with extensive training experience working in chess academies and club courses so as to best identify the most productive positions and exercises to use.Chess Exercises for Beginners is a very good first puzzle book, and people well past the proper use of the term "beginner" can get some serious use out of it. I know purists (like me from 5 years ago) will say that you should set the positions up on a board and solve them, but I don't have that kind of time. 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.

I would classify it more as an excellent practice tool for 'advanced' beginners, and a fun, convenient tactics review for intermediate players. com) and unsurprisingly, it improved my chess a ton – especially compared to the random bs I had been doing before.

On a slight tangent, I find this to be an infuriatingly common slip-up with chess literature — hide the damn spoilers! It just seems strange to me that there's some problems with relatively forcing lines or obvious motifs that I could figure out within a few minutes, and there's others with very quiet moves or sacs that require deep (for me) calculation right next to each other, especially since the problems are supposed to be sorted according to difficulty. Remember, these puzzles were carefully chosen and/or created by humans that know what they're doing.

Before reading this book, my ELO rating would be around 800, I am only on page 26 of this book and my ELO rating is 1043.

Winning Chess sacrifices (and combinations, along with 1001 Brilliant ways to Checkmate from the same authors) - Fred Reinfeld. This is all well and good, but those seeking very in-depth calculation training from this book might be disappointed. Not that they necessarily needed their own dedicated chapters, but I think they should've been included in the glossary at least. Chess is 99% tactics – and if you want to win more games, nothing works better than training tactics. a pawn fork that forces ei­ ther the king or queen onto f7, allo­ wing a devastating knight fork) 1 .