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

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In this position, which is almost identical to the preceding one, Black can save both pieces with the simple move 1 . Thus it’s more a book about familiarising one’s self with tactical patterns and improving tactical awareness, vision and basic calculation skills.

He explains all the basic concepts, and provides you with a huge amount of exercises for each theme and each chess piece. So back to the point, for those of you who have gone through this book, is it supposed to be this difficult? I‘m currently on the 4th repetition cycle on "1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners“ and I intend to do a 5th one as well, but figuring out what to do after that is a bit of a struggle. 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. As mentioned before, our enthusiasm for a possible tactical opportunity can blind us to a possible defence by our adversary.All are great books, but I prefer tactics book that has things like pin,fork etc, rather than exclusive mate problems book. Visualise a square made u p o f t h e line between pawn and its promotion square and three other lines of equal length. I knew I'd have some difficulty with the problems seeing as I was at the lower end of the intended rating range. Remember, these puzzles were carefully chosen and/or created by humans that know what they're doing. As the author says in his preface (his emphasis): ‘"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Where should you go if you want to become a tactical wizard?

I can personally vouch for it and say that I am now a sharper tactician than I was before I started the book and a better chess player overall. 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. 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 . Not tactical themes, but less leading themes like "defense and counter" or "endgames" and are gradually more difficult.

The positions are grouped by tactical motifs (pin, discovered attack, and so on), but the book also presents mixed motifs and mate puzzles.

I'll post a few books that I've collected on my wish list that seem to be advised at least once on this site.The author is a Dutch IM, trainer and youth coach of the Dutch Chess Federation, so has ample experience and knows whereof he speaks. I've gotten a few Chessable courses and have been doing a bunch of tactics to try shake some of the rust off. This example teaches us that before making a double attack we have to make sure that our opponent does not have tactical resources of his own.

There is a comparatively challenging collection of mate-in-threes (81 positions) and mate-in-fours (23 positions), and a healthy chunk of "mixed motifs" puzzles. There is also the 'double threat' motif, which arises when at least one of our attacks does not involve the threat of material gain, but instead another type of threat such as checkmate. Even thought it has a beginner in its title,this is harder than Chess Tactics for Champion by Polgar. There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

If this celebrated observation is true for the master, how much more so for the beginner and club player. I was already familiar with the tactics, but the selected puzzles helped iron out my understanding and recognition of them. They allow you to find solutions for puzzles that might have stumped you otherwise, in the same way that grouping puzzles by tactical motifs present might.