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.

Chess Puzzle Book: Beginner I 0-900 Chess Games for Beginners Fun Introduction to the World of Chess, Whether you are a professional chess player looking to review the basics, a beginner who wants to know more about this intellectual sport or you are currently training to improve your technique, our chess puzzle book is the way to go! This chess book encompasses basic learning elements, rules of the game, and strategies that can help you become better and widen your chess knowledge. Studying is the Key, We believe that chess is an art that requires not only talent but also a solid base that can only be attained through hard work, a lot of practice, and most importantly, study. This chess book is here to guide you step by step using essential strategies, rules, and language that can help you understand every move, recognise combinations, patterns and harness everything to your advantage. Practice, Practice, Practice, Once you got a solid base and deep understanding of the basic chess rules and strategies, it's time to get to the action! Our chess for beginners book includes no less than 201 puzzles and their solutions that will put your mind to work and help you practice classic and modern strategies to defeat your opponents. Improve Your Tactics, When you have a good guide and a basic understanding of chess, you are already one step ahead! With all the chess games and puzzles, strategies, explanations, and rules, this chess book can help stimulate your logic, problem-solving skills, and critical thinking while harnessing all that information in order to help you gain an advantage on every move, block, decoy, or mating pattern and checkmate your opponent with style. Why Choose Our Chess Puzzle Book? * Easy to understand and very well explained * Helps you dive deep into chess strategies, basic rules, chess language * Contains 201 chess puzzles with explanations * Great for beginners, professional chess players, or amateurs * Can help you practice your base knowledge * Amazing gift for chess enthusiasts * Perfect chess book for kids * The chess tactics workbook

Chess is 99% tactics. If this celebrated observation is true for the master, how much more so for beginners and casual players! If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training combinations. There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises. 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. Masetti and Messa have created a great first tactics book. It teaches you how to: ¯ identify weak spots in the position of your opponent ¯ recognize patterns of combinations ¯ visualize tricks. 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners can also be used as a course text book, because only the most didactically productive exercises have been used.

Josh Waitzkin combines personal anecdotes with solid instruction in this unique introduction to the game of chess. Concentrating on teaching young or new players how to beef up their attacks, Waitzkin presents 40 different chess challenges. He introduces each problem with a brief description of the game from which it was drawn. 50 line drawings.

Tactics Time 2 presents 1001 fresh and instructive positions that Tim and Anthea have assembled from real amateur chess games, leaving you able to spot relatively simple patterns like a knight fork, an overloaded piece or a weak back rank.

Chess openings are the most important part of every novices journey and the most fun. The most common and important openings are presented in an easy-to-use format with large, frequent diagrams showing every position along with clear explanations of the goals, objectives, and concepts behind the moves. No other book so perfectly presents the openings in a manner so easy to learn and use. 176 pages.

Chess puzzle books are undoubtedly popular – and with good reason. Solving chess puzzles helps to sharpen a player’s tactical and combinational skills. This ability is absolutely fundamental for chess development. You won’t get better at tennis until you can consistently hit the ball with accuracy and you won’t get better at chess until you improve your ability to calculate. It is that simple and there are no shortcuts. Many puzzle books take a far too simplistic approach and offer endless positions where the solution is nearly always along the lines of: queen takes something check, king takes queen, check, check and a pretty mate. Aesthetically pleasing perhaps but of minimal use for actual improvement as the patterns are so familiar. Practical Chess Puzzles avoids this pitfall. The positions chosen are far more like those that actually appear on the board during the vast majority of games. Furthermore, at all stages, the puzzles are ranked, enabling the student to gauge progress and identify and correct weaknesses. * 600 puzzles featuring instructive, typically “game-like” positions * Model games featuring important instructional points * A ranking system to assess progress.

This book takes readers through a complete chess game against Sophia, a girl who has just learned how to move the chess pieces. In the book's game, players are asked to choose among a master level move, a good-okay move, and a third that is just plain bad. The readers await Sophia's next move. With this book, readers will learn to make smart moves in their own real-life chess games, too!

Classic introduction offers superb coverage of all aspects, especially Middle Game, combination play. Hundreds of games analyzed. Over 340 diagrams.

'When most people learn to play chess, they usually memorise the movements of the pieces and then spend years pummelling away at each other with little rhyme and even less reason. Though I will show you how each piece leaps around, what it likes to do