CHESS TACTICS

    Starting Out - Chess Tactics and Checkmates
    Once a chess player has figured out how all the chess pieces move, what is the next step on the chess ladder? This helpful and entertaining book provides players with the complete answer. In this easy-to-follow guide, renowned chess teacher Chris Ward explains all the crucial checkmating patterns, plus how to catch out opponents with an assortment of tricks and traps, commonly known as chess tactics.
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    Starting Out - Chess Tactics and Checkmates
    Catalog Code: B0001EM
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    Understanding Chess Tactics
    FREE with orders over $100.00! Just add this book to your shopping cart and enter FREEBOOK into the coupon field when you checkout. When FM Martin Weteschnik started working as a trainer in his local chess club, he quickly realized that even the stronger club players had great weaknesses in their tactical play. He also discovered that simply asking them to solve a huge number of puzzles did not fix the problem. These players clearly needed a good book, but when Weteschnik looked for it he found nothing suitable, so he decided to write it himself. To his surprise, the book quickly became very successful in his native Germany, where one reviewer called it an "instant classic."
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    Understanding Chess Tactics
    Catalog Code: B0022QT
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    Combinative Motifs
    1,205 best tactical positions, grouped according to their topics. Intended for chess players with ELO 1600-2400. This chess exercise book is written by an experienced coach, International Grandmaster of ICCF. It contains more than 1400 exercises that are arranged very precisely after various combinational motifs.
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    Combinative Motifs
    Catalog Code: B0023OB
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    How to Calculate Chess Tactics
    A Revealing Look at the Nuts and Bolts of Chess Thought
    Thinking methods are at the heart of the chess struggle, yet most players devote little conscious effort to improving their calculating ability. Much of the previous literature on the subject has presented idealized models that have limited relevance to the hurly-burly of practical chess, or else provide little more than ad hoc suggestions. Here, experienced trainer Valeri Beim strikes a balance by explaining how to use intuition and logic together to solve tactical problems in a methodical way. He also offers advice on when it is best to calculate 'like a machine', and when it is better to rely on intuitive assessment.
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    How to Calculate Chess Tactics
    A Revealing Look at the Nuts and Bolts of Chess Thought
    Catalog Code: B0080GB
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    Winning Chess Combinations
    Combinations are the central element in chess; they make the game so magical and captivating. The beautiful point of sacrificing a queen, the strongest piece, in order to checkmate with a lowly pawn brings a smile of joy to all chess lovers. Virtually all chess games possess a combination, either one hidden in the shadows of analysis carefully avoided or one that provides a decisive blow.
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    Winning Chess Combinations
    Catalog Code: B0199EM
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    Improve Your Chess Tactics
    700 Practical Lessons & Exercises
    Instruction + exercises according to the old Soviet Chess School. 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.
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    Improve Your Chess Tactics
    700 Practical Lessons & Exercises
    Catalog Code: B0099NIC
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    Sacking the Citadel
    The History, Theory and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice
    Four hundred years ago, an Italian chess master, Gioachino Greco, discovered an extraordinary bishop sacrifice on h7 that often leads to checkmate or a significant material advantage. More amazing still, he recorded the idea!
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    Sacking the Citadel
    The History, Theory and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice
    Catalog Code: B0045RE
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    1000 Checkmate Combinations
    This truly outstanding book, first published in Russian in the 1970s and regarded there as a classic, contains everything you need to know bout how to deliver checkmate. It contains a wealth of elegant and sophisticated chess tactics as well as systematic and effective instruction.
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    1000 Checkmate Combinations
    Catalog Code: B0114BT
    Our Price: $21.95

    Hunting the Castled King
    This book is a collection of attacks in chess against a castled king position. The author, a FIDE rated chess master and a professional chess coach and teacher, writes: "In the course of my many years of teaching at all levels from elementary school to graduate school. I have often found it useful to use source books containing materials around which I could build lessons."
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    Hunting the Castled King
    Catalog Code: B0092IS
    Our Price: $17.95

    Invisible Chess Moves
    Discover Your Blind Spots and Stop Overlooking Simple Wins
    Every chess player knows that some moves are harder to see than others. Why is it that, frequently, uncomplicated wins simply do not enter your mind? Even strong grandmasters suffer from blind spots that obscure some of the best ideas during a game. What is more: often both players fail to see the opportunity that is right in front of their eyes.
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    Invisible Chess Moves
    Discover Your Blind Spots and Stop Overlooking Simple Wins
    Catalog Code: B0105NIC
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    Power Chess for Kids
    Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best Players in Your School
    A power move, explains experienced chess teacher Charles Hertan, is a winning master tactic that requires thinking ahead. To become one of the best chess players in your school you need to be able to think just 1,5 moves ahead, and this book teaches the four basic tricks do so.
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    Power Chess for Kids
    Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best Players in Your School
    Catalog Code: B0104NIC
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    Positional Chess Sacrifices

    Publisher: Quality Chess
    Author: Mihai Suba
    Year of Publication: 2012 Pages: 376
    Notation Type: Figurine (FAN)


    Book Description In chess, sacrificing material is the most dramatic way to try to seize the advantage. Most sacrifices have a forcing aim in mind, but most profound of all are positional sacrifices where the end is impossible to foresee and thus fine judgment and understanding are required. Such sacrifices are usually a mystery to average players, but acclaimed author and chess grandmaster Mihai Suba explains the secrets of this technique in his characteristically bold and humorous style. About the Author(s) Mihai Suba is a Romanian grandmaster whose previous book, Dynamic Chess Strategy, was highly acclaimed by the critics and won the BCF Book of the Year prize.
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    Positional Chess Sacrifices
    Catalog Code: B0057QT
    Our Price: $29.95

    The Art of Sacrifice in Chess
    The first systematic attempt to explain and exploit the theory of chess sacrifice, this guide remains an extremely helpful weapon in the arsenal of players at every level.
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    The Art of Sacrifice in Chess
    Catalog Code: B0041DV
    Our Price: $12.95

    World Champion Chess Tactics - VOLUME 1
    Anderssen & Morphy Queen Sacrifices
    In World Champion Chess Tactics! Volume 1, International Grandmaster Ron W. Henley shows you how Q sacrifices played a role in crucial victories in his own career.
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    World Champion Chess Tactics - VOLUME 1
    Anderssen & Morphy Queen Sacrifices
    Catalog Code: B0064OB
    Our Price: $14.95

    World Champion Chess Tactics - VOLUME 2
    Steinitz, Chigorin & Blackburne Queen Sacrifices
    In World Champion Chess Tactics! Volume 2, International Grandmaster Ron W. Henley shows you how £ sacrifices played a role throughout the career of the First Official World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz. We then examine Q sacrifice highlights of the careers of "The Father of Russian Chess" Mikhail Chigorin, "The Black Death" Joseph Blackburne and "Russia's Chess Teacher" Emanuel Schiffers.
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    World Champion Chess Tactics - VOLUME 2
    Steinitz, Chigorin & Blackburne Queen Sacrifices
    Catalog Code: B0065OB
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    Advanced Chess Tactics
    A mastery of tactics is essential to a competitive chess player and Lev Psakhis is ideally qualified to show the way. In Advanced Chess Tactics Psakhis showcases many beautiful attacking games to make his points. Psakhis has the ability to explain deep analysis while also offering simple yet wise tips gleaned from his lifetime of experience.
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    Advanced Chess Tactics
    Catalog Code: B0061QT
    Our Price: $34.95

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