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

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The puzzles are generally well-selected, and seem to reinforce common and useful motifs and provide a good amount of variation within them. 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. Not that they necessarily needed their own dedicated chapters, but I think they should've been included in the glossary at least. There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by a some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises. 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.Sharpen your tactics: 1125 brillant sacrifices, combinations and studies by Anatoly Lein and Archangelsky. Finally and most inexplicably, in the kindle version the insert-a-piece puzzles each appear twice, meaning that the puzzle numbers in the two versions are different. Also, I‘m worried about losing my newly acquired tactical prowess if I spend the next months only working on strategy. All are great books, but I prefer tactics book that has things like pin,fork etc, rather than exclusive mate problems book.

There is also a small section where the reader is instructed to place a named piece on the board to achieve mate or the gain of material, which I found to be quite creative and refreshing. and PLEASE, i know it's boring but if you've read and recommend book(s) in particular, could you add a reason why? 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. 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. Well, to some extent the function of a puzzle book is to expose your chess brain to tactical ideas to sink them into your intuition.Puzzle books in general are a ridiculously good investment for chess improvement, and the bang-to-buck ratio is looking good here. On a slight tangent, I find this to be an infuriatingly common slip-up with chess literature — hide the damn spoilers! A wonderful mix of various tactical motifs and a great assembly of exercises that really should be in every chess book collection. He is an experienced trainer of amateur players of all levels and has been the National Youth Coach of the Dutch Chess Federation. If this celebrated observation is true for the master, how much more so for the beginner and club player.