Chessboard Combat

Chess students love a Puzzle Rush. And solving tactics puzzles certainly helps you improve your pattern recognition and will help you find good moves in tournament games. But there is a downside to most tactics puzzles we always know who is supposed to win!

Chess in real life is different, not just because no one taps us on the shoulder and tells us to look for a tactic. Sometimes tactics work, and sometimes they don't. Sometimes your opponent has a few tricks up their sleeve, too.

This book shows the reality of chess tactics. It explores a chess player's challenges over the board: attack, defense, and counterattack! It exposes the actual give-and-take nature of chess tactics.

American grandmaster Joel Benjamin, a three-time U.S. Champion, was inspired by the 20th-century classic Chess Traps, Pitfalls, and Swindles by legendary chess authors Fred Reinfeld and Israel Albert Horowitz. With modern examples, Benjamin arouses the same spirit of fun and enjoyment. With a generous amount of puzzles in quiz form, this manual will help chess students sharpen their tactical skills and be ready to strike - or counterstrike.

Joel Benjamin is an American grandmaster and a three-time U.S. Champion. He became the youngest-ever U.S. chess master at age 13, beating Bobby Fischer's record. Chessboard Combat is his fifth book for New In Chess. Benjamin graduated from Yale University with a major in history.

Hersteller Informationen

Name	New in Chess B.V.
Adresse	Rochdalestraat 4 a Alkmaar 1814 TH Niederlande
Internet	www.newinchess.com
E-Mail	nic@newinchess.com

Joel Benjamin hat schon mehrere bemerkenswerte Bücher geschrieben. Das beste war vielleicht “Liquidation on the Chessboard”, ein technischer Blick auf Übergänge in Bauernendspiele. Benjamin ist ein sehr guter Autor, der die Gabe besitzt, seine eigene Begeisterung für Schachphänomene zu vermitteln. Er selbst war in seiner Jugend begeistert von dem Schmöker “Chess Traps, Pitfalls and Swindles” von I. A. Horowitz und Fred Reinfeld (Simon and Schuster, 1954).

Das Buch liest sich wie eine Taktik-Fibel, aber ohne den didaktischen Impetus, eher wie eine Plauderei über taktische Irrwitzigkeiten und unterhaltsame Phänomene. Sehr unterhaltsam.

Das Buch spricht sowohl ambitionierte Spieler als auch Schachliebhaber an, die taktische Wendungen und Überraschungen auf dem Brett schätzen. Wie heißt es so schön in dem neuen Anfänger-1.e4-Kurs von András Toth? “Complexity is not to be avoided but to be enjoyed in chess.”

Aus dem Inhaltsverzeichnis:
- Strike, Counterstrike
- The King Is a Fighting Piece
- Dodging Defenses
- Staying Alive
- Trying Too Hard to Win
- Back Rank Tactics
- In the Beginning... and in the End
- Whoops!
- Tactical Tips

Fernando Offermann
Berliner Schachverband
Dezember 2024