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

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These exercises are more than just good fun; they improve pattern recognition, visualisation and creativity as well. Chess is 99% tactics – and if you want to win more games, nothing works better than training tactics. n\nThis is a very well-constructed and presented piece of work with crystal clear diagrams and layout, which would, I am sure, be of great help to anyone just joining our ranks.

Well, one of the many great advised a received on this forum was one written on this forum and stated this: " You might consider just reading the first 15 [puzzles] of each chapter, then quickly do them again, the same day. 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. The other day, I was listening to a Perpetual Chess Episode starring legendary adult improver Neal Bruce, who famously spent four years on tactics and tactics only before switching to the realm of strategy books, which he intends to study for three whole years.For me that has been the level for reinforcement of tactical patterns (others have a different difficulty level recommendation). The King can't capture it as it's protected by the pawn on f4, the King has no available square to move too so it's checkmate. Also, I‘m worried about losing my newly acquired tactical prowess if I spend the next months only working on strategy.

As with the previous chapter, a variety of motifs are presented often with several tactical themes in the one position. With fulfillment centers in Florida and London, England, we serve chess-players from all over the world. White initiates a combination that includes deflection and a pin; Black has no choice but to part with his rook to avoid checkmate. This well-known maxim may sound strange but is really just an exaggerated basic truth: if you want to win more games, nothing works better than training combinations. First of all, I've never seen a tactics book that doesn't explain the basic concepts of the different tactics.The introductory texts for each chapter feel a bit perfunctory, and mostly consist of a page or three and some examples. There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises. blow that secures a draw by perpetual check or stalemate is just as rewarding as a brilliant checkmate. After halfheartedly considering a few possible other candidate moves, I had to give up because I hadn't the faintest idea what it could possibly be.

It helps you in identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, in recognizing patterns of combinations, and in visualizing tricks.There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by a some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises.