A Guide to Chess Improvement

A Guide to Chess Improvement

Author: Dan Heisman

Publisher: Gloucester Publishers Plc

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781857446494

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This book features the very best of Dan Heisman's multi-award winning chess column Novice Nook and is full of valuable instruction, insight and practical advice on a wide range of key chess subjects.


Looking for Trouble

Looking for Trouble

Author: Dan Heisman

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2010-04-26

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1888690771

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This book is written to address an underemphasized area of chess training and study, the identification of and reaction to--threats. For beginner and intermediate-level players, the study of tactics is paramount. Almost all tactics books take the approach of providing a position where there is a forced win, checkmate or draw. However, Looking for Trouble takes a different tack. This book helps players to recognize threats by providing over 200 problems in which players can focus on identifying and meeting threats ranging from extremely easy to fiendishly difficult. The identification of difficult threats - how to meet them - discussed in a manner that accommodates players of all levels.


Pump Up Your Rating

Pump Up Your Rating

Author: Axel Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2013-09-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781907982736

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Any man in the street knows how to increase his physical strength, but among most chess players confusion reigns when it comes to improving their playing strength. Axel Smith's training methods have guided his friends, teammates and pupils to grandmaster norms and titles. Hard work will be required, but Axel Smith knows how you can Pump Up Your Rating.Every area of chess is covered - opening preparation, through middlegame play, to endgame technique. Smith delves into both the technical and psychological sides of chess, and shows how best to practise and improve.


Rapid Chess Improvement

Rapid Chess Improvement

Author: Michael De la Maza

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781857442694

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A book for all enthusiastic adult players. Michael de la Maza reveals the secrets of a unique study plan which he used to transform his level of play in just a twelve month period.


1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners

1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners

Author: Franco Masetti

Publisher: New In Chess

Published: 2019-01-11

Total Pages: 2069

ISBN-13: 9056915584

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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.


Build Up Your Chess 1

Build Up Your Chess 1

Author: Artur Yusupov

Publisher: Quality Chess Uk Llp

Published: 2008-09-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 9781906552015

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Artur Yusupov's complete course of chess training stretches to nine volumes, guiding the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles. The course is structured in three series with three levels. The Fundamentals level is the easiest one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players. The various topics – Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, Endgames, Calculating Variations, and Openings – are spread evenly across the nine volumes, giving readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books. This book is the first volume at the Fundamentals level. The Build Up Your Chess series won the prestigious Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world.


Predator at the Chessboard

Predator at the Chessboard

Author: Ward Farnsworth

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-01-17

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1430308001

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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 Tactics for Students

Chess Tactics for Students

Author: John A. Bain

Publisher: Learning Plus, Incorporated

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780963961402

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Introducing thirteen basic chess tactics in a variety of frequently encountered positional patterns.


A Course in Chess Tactics

A Course in Chess Tactics

Author: Dejan Bojkov

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906454142

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This book fills a valuable niche in the ambitious player's library. The authors present each major tactical theme in turn, explaining how it works and providing inspiring examples. They then explain how you can spot the idea in your own games and use it to your advantage.