He explains all the basic concepts, and provides you with a huge amount of exercises for each theme and each chess piece. What that means is that you're never really finished and end up playing over the exercises many times. Sharpen your tactics: 1125 brillant sacrifices, combinations and studies by Anatoly Lein and Archangelsky. But it seemed appropriate to me to but them together since they're from the same author and about their tactical content seem to complete each other. com) after completing it to test out other candidate moves and why they don't work, especially when it isn't discussed in the solutions section.

Well, one of the many great advised a received on this forum was one written on this forum and stated this: " You might consider just reading the first 15 [puzzles] of each chapter, then quickly do them again, the same day. Remember, these puzzles were carefully chosen and/or created by humans that know what they're doing.

But i kinda wanted some review from players, here, of what they thought on particular books i listed. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The chapter divisions are also gone, which is a problem because they provide the instructions for the puzzles - without any instructions, solving the puzzles that involve adding a named piece is impossible. i nterference or obstruction) a tactic that results in the obstruction of a file, rank or diagona l, with short term tactical consequences for the opponent combination a combination of two or more dif­ ferent tactical motifs i n series, often involving a sacrifice decoy sacrifice a sacrifice that forces the captur­ ing piece to a key square, with negative conse­ q uences deflection a capture or threat forces a piece away from its defence of a piece or a key square discovery the movement of a piece u n masks a threat by a second piece double attack (see fork) a single piece threatens two undefended pieces simu ltaneously.

If you are new to the game, check out /r/chessbeginners and before posting here please read our rules: https://www. 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. Over the board, individual tactical motifs are often hidden in the complexity of the position, and a player must train his eye to recognise how a combination of tactical themes can be put tog ether to achieve his objective, be it mate or winning material.Not purely puzzle book, but 1200 or so Tactics positions can be treated like a puzzle book if you ignore the text.