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This truly outstanding book, first published in Russian in the 70s and regarded there as a classic, contains everything you need to know about how to deliver checkmate. It contains a wealth of elegant and sophisticated chess tactics as well as systematic and effective instruction. Each chapter covers a different piece or combination of pieces that is able to deliver checkmate, and provides illustrative templates for just about every mating formation. By working through the book, readers will develop their ability to recognise the potential for a checkmate, as well as the know-how to execute one. Clearly written and beautifully organised, it will appeal to both club and tournament players.

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Australian chess champion Gary Lane introduced his unique training methods in the bestselling Improve Your Chess in 7 Days. Now he applies the same quick, effective approach to a book focused on tactics. With realistic examples from actual games, the reader learns to use pins, forks, skewers, decoys, deflections, and other classic maneuvers in every phase of play, from the opening to the endgame. By following the plan day by day-studying the positions, reading the text, and performing the exercises-any player, whether beginner, intermediate, or advanced, is assured of dramatic results in just 7 days.

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A transposition in chess is a little like a bait-and-switch marketing ploy. The customer thinks he’s getting a bargain on one piece of merchandise, but he ends up buying another at a much higher price. In the first book devoted to chess transpositions, New York Post columnist and acclaimed chess author Andy Soltis shows how this strategy works over the board. By transposing a series of well-known moves (i.e., making them in an unfamiliar order), a player leads his opponent into an unfavorable position that he would normally have shunned. Using entertaining examples from the games of the masters, Soltis covers a variety of transpositions in virtually every kind of opening: double e-pawn, Sicilian, the Reti, English, Indian, and others.

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The author takes the reader from a basic knowledge of the elements of tactical play to the identification of more complex and concealed combinations such as those which arise in the hurly burly of competitive play. Pin, skewer, double and discovered attack, decoy, deflection, interception, overloading are just some of the colourful themes defined and illustrated by a wealth of striking practical examples. Moreover at the end of each chapter readers are invited to test their new-found knowledge and skill by solving the challenging test positions. This attractive self-teacher will enable youngsters and adults alike to spice up their play by mastering the art of chess tactics.

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Find the Winning Move contains hundreds of chess positions in which the reader must find the right way to deliver a winner in one, two or more moves. International Master Gary Lane uses his teaching skill and experience to present a fun but educational puzzle book that helps players develop recognition of tactical combinations. Over 400 puzzles are presented to allow players of all levels – from novices upwards – to improve their game. Hours of enjoyment and entertainment are to be gained from trying to solve these puzzles and you’ll end up a better chess player at the end of it.

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Find the right way to deliver a checkmate in one, two or more moves from hundreds of chess positions provided by the author. By tackling these puzzles, lower-level players, including children and novices, will start to think like chessplayers – trying this and that move, visualising and calculating – guiding them on to the road of further chess advancement.

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A companion volume to Mastering Chess Tactics. In this book, the author concentrates on that most satisfying brand of tactics: how to checkmate the opponent's king. Part one outlines the basic mating patterns that can be achieved with the various chess pieces or combinations of pieces. More complex examples then follow, together with test-yourself positions. Part two examines the strategic and tactical prerequisites for reaching such mating positions. These might involve a direct piece attack on a castled king, a pawn storm, a king hunt or the exploitation of a king stuck in the centre. For club and tournament players.

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For nearly half a century Leonard Barden has delighted readers of his newspaper columns with his chess puzzles, taken from both the world of chess composition and practical play. Here he presents the best of these v hundreds of brain-teasers designed for all levels of player and classified under such themes as Novice corner, Knockouts in one, Checkmates in two, Practical opening traps, Learn from the champions Spot the blunder, Strategic chess, Endgame challenges, Touch nuts, and Party tricks.

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chessplayer must continually be alert to tactics, which effectively decide the outcome of all chess games.Part one of this book introduces you to the various tactical themes such as forks, double attacks, pins, skewers, line opening and clearing, deflections, and destroying the guard , explaining them with practical examples from modern chess play.Part two goes one step further, showing you how to discover combinations and also how to instigate them v guided by the specific features of the position.