303 Tricky Chess Puzzles

303 Tricky Chess Puzzles
Author: Fred Wilson
Publisher: Cardoza Publishing
Total Pages: 149
Release:
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1580425240

An entertaining and instructive collection of carefully selected tactical chess puzzles will pay immediate dividends at the board and make any reader a better player. The authors both veteran professional chess instructors have collected or created 303 typical game situations. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority. Divided into three chapters, each filled with 101 large, clear diagrams, this book runs the entire gamut of necessary tactical knowledge. 303 Tricky Chess Puzzles is a perfect workbook for anyone who wants to sharpen their budding chess expertise.

303 Tricky Checkmates

303 Tricky Checkmates
Author: Fred Wilson
Publisher: Cardoza Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release:
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1580425232

A fascinating challenge and great training tool, these two- three- and four-move checkmates are great for beginning, intermediate, and expert players. Mates are in order of difficulty, from simple to very complex positions. Learn the standard patterns for cornering the king, corridor and support mates, attraction and deflection sacrifices, pins and annihilation, the quiet move, and the dreaded zugzwang. Mate challenges are presented from both Blacks and Whites perspective so players learn to see both sides of the board. Examples from old classics to the new millenium illustrate a wide range of ideas. This book is lots of fun and an easy way for a player to improve skills! 192 pages

303 Tricky Chess Tactics

303 Tricky Chess Tactics
Author: Fred Wilson/Bruce Alberston
Publisher: Cardoza Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release:
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1580425259

Both a fascinating challenge and great training tool, these tricky tactical problems are not only fun to solve but great for advanced beginners, intermediate, and expert players to use as tools to improve their game. Tactics are presented in order of difficulty so that players can advance from simple to complex positions. Examples from actual games illustrate a wide range of tactics from the classics right up to the current games. You'll learn to use pins, single and double forks, double attacks, skewers, discovered and double checks, multiple threat tactics and other crushing tactics as part of their problem-solving challenges. Great stuff and fun too! Illustrations

303 Crushing Chess Tactics

303 Crushing Chess Tactics
Author: Fred Wilson
Publisher: Cardoza Publishing
Total Pages: 314
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1580426190

Both a fascinating challenge and great training tool, these 303 awesome tactic puzzles are not only super fun to solve but great for beginners, advanced beginners, and intermediate players to use as tools to win chess games. Tactics are presented in order of difficulty so that players can advance from the simple to the complex positions. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority. Puzzles cover the gamut from straightforward moves right up to tricky traps. A book for chess winners! table { }tr { }col { }br { }td { padding: 0px; color: windowtext; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; white-space: nowrap; }.xl66 { font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }

303 Tactical Chess Puzzles

303 Tactical Chess Puzzles
Author: Fred Wilson
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2002
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806927336

It’s the mental gymnasium where you can do a winning chess workout! Based on the authors’ belief that the only way to improve is to study tactics, each intriguing example hones your skills so you can move up to the next level. Organized into beginners, intermediate, and tournament levels of play, each section has 100 puzzles, with additional material on defense and defeating computer chess machines.

51 Chess Openings for Beginners

51 Chess Openings for Beginners
Author: Bruce Alberston
Publisher: Cardoza Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release:
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1580425267

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

Chess
Author: László Polgár
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08-13
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781579129507

Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book.. More than 6,000 illustrations make it easy to see the possibilities regardless of where your pieces are on the board. The book also includes the basic rules of the game and an international bibliography. Chess is the ultimate book on winning the game.

The Woodpecker Method 2

The Woodpecker Method 2
Author: Axel Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-11
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781784831233

Swedish chess Grandmaster Axel Smith returns with a sequel to his colossal bestseller, The Woodpecker Method, which was on the tactics of the World Champions. For The Woodpecker Method 2, he has found 1002 foundational positional exercises and prepared them for 'woodpecking' - solve the puzzles repeatedly, and boost your positional intuition. The quick explanation of the Woodpecker Method is that you need to solve a large number of puzzles in a row; then solve the same puzzles again and again, only faster. It's not a lazy shortcut to success - hard work is required. But the reward can be re-programming your unconscious mind.

Chess Tactics for Kids

Chess Tactics for Kids
Author: Murray Chandler
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2017-07-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781973869702

Chess Tactics for Kids By Murray Chandler