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Chessboard Combat

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224 pages, paperback, New in Chess, 1. edition 2023

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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.
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EAN 9789493257832
Weight 430 g
Manufacturer New in Chess
Width 17 cm
Height 23.5 cm
Medium Book
Year of Publication 2023
Author Joel Benjamin
Language English
Edition 1
ISBN-13 9789493257832
Pages 224
Binding paperback
006 Explanation of symbols
007 Introduction
010 Acknowledgements
011 Chapter 1) Strike, Counterstrike
076 Chapter 2) The King Is a Fighting Piece
111 Chapter 3) Dodging Defenses
120 Chapter 4) Staying Alive
154 Chapter 5) Trying Too Hard to Win
163 Chapter 6) Back Rank Tactics
174 Chapter 7) In the Beginning... and in the End
190 Chapter 8) Whoops!
217 Chapter 9) Tactical Tips
221 Index of names
224 Sources