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LMNEIIYCT2024G
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Improve Your Chess Tactics (hc)
The Upgraded 2024 Edition
392 pages, hardback, New in Chess, 2. edition 2024, first edition 2011
The best advice for chess players who want to improve quickly is: get better at tactics! Because the vast majority of amateur games is decided through tactics. You will immediately start beating more opponents when you improve your tactical skills.
Improve Your Chess Tactics presents more than 700 decisive combinations from tournament practice and is a self-tutor and a sparring-partner in one. Experienced Russian chess master Yakov Neishtadt has selected those examples that have the biggest instructional value for club players.
In the first part of the book Neishtadt teaches a systematic course on the most important tactical themes. The second part consists of an exam with hundreds of tests from real-life chess, in random order so as not to give unwelcome hints on how to solve them. The solutions are not just lists of moves, but include clear,witty and instructive prose.
Yakov Neishtadt (1923-2023) was a famous chess writer and historian. He published dozens of books, in his native Russia and abroad, and was editor-in-chief of the acclaimed Soviet chess magazine 64.
Improve Your Chess Tactics presents more than 700 decisive combinations from tournament practice and is a self-tutor and a sparring-partner in one. Experienced Russian chess master Yakov Neishtadt has selected those examples that have the biggest instructional value for club players.
In the first part of the book Neishtadt teaches a systematic course on the most important tactical themes. The second part consists of an exam with hundreds of tests from real-life chess, in random order so as not to give unwelcome hints on how to solve them. The solutions are not just lists of moves, but include clear,witty and instructive prose.
Yakov Neishtadt (1923-2023) was a famous chess writer and historian. He published dozens of books, in his native Russia and abroad, and was editor-in-chief of the acclaimed Soviet chess magazine 64.
| EAN | 9789083378848 |
|---|---|
| Weight | 850 g |
| Manufacturer | New in Chess |
| Width | 17.7 cm |
| Height | 24 cm |
| Medium | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2024 |
| Author | Iakov Neishtadt |
| Language | English |
| Edition | 2 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-833788-4-8 |
| Year of First Edition | 2011 |
| Pages | 392 |
| Binding | hardback |
007 Concerning Chess Improvement, and this Book
009 The Alpha and Omega of Chess
Combinative Themes
018 Deflection
025 Exercises
035 Decoying
048 Exercises
055 Eliminating Defenders
058 Exercises
060 Clearing Squares and Lines
065 Exercises
067 Pinning and Unpinning
073 Exercises
076 Interference and Shutting-off
080 Exercises
083 Combining Themes
099 Exercises
105 Pawns on the Brink
112 Exercises
115 Miracle Saves
124 Exercises
128 Examination
Solutions
192 Deflection (positions 35-86)
207 Decoying (positions 120-155)
217 Eliminating Defenders (positions 163-172)
220 Clearing Squares and Lines (positions 183-192)
223 Pinning and Unpinning (positions 208-223)
228 Interference (positions 232-245)
233 Combining Themes (positions 281-310)
243 Pawns on the brink (positions 325-338)
248 Miracle saves (positions 359-380)
255 Examination (positions 381-735)
375 Index of names
009 The Alpha and Omega of Chess
Combinative Themes
018 Deflection
025 Exercises
035 Decoying
048 Exercises
055 Eliminating Defenders
058 Exercises
060 Clearing Squares and Lines
065 Exercises
067 Pinning and Unpinning
073 Exercises
076 Interference and Shutting-off
080 Exercises
083 Combining Themes
099 Exercises
105 Pawns on the Brink
112 Exercises
115 Miracle Saves
124 Exercises
128 Examination
Solutions
192 Deflection (positions 35-86)
207 Decoying (positions 120-155)
217 Eliminating Defenders (positions 163-172)
220 Clearing Squares and Lines (positions 183-192)
223 Pinning and Unpinning (positions 208-223)
228 Interference (positions 232-245)
233 Combining Themes (positions 281-310)
243 Pawns on the brink (positions 325-338)
248 Miracle saves (positions 359-380)
255 Examination (positions 381-735)
375 Index of names