Author: Fred Wilson Publisher: Cardoza ISBN: 9781580421829 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A carefully selected entertaining and instructive collection of tactical chess puzzles. The authors-both veteran professional chess instructors-have collected or created 303 additional game situations, to go with the situations featured in the original 303 Tricky Chess Puzzles. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority. Divided into three chapters, each filled with 101 large, clear diagrams, the entire gamut of necessary tactical knowledge is challenged, tested, and with the result that the reader becomes a stronger player and has lots of fun in the process. 303 More Tricky Chess Puzzles is a perfect workbook for adults (or children) who want to sharpen their budding chess expertise.
Author: Fred Wilson Publisher: Cardoza Publishing ISBN: 1580426190 Category : Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
Both a fascinating challenge and great training tool, these 303 awesome tactic puzzles are not only super fun to solve but great for beginners, advanced beginners, and intermediate players to use as tools to win chess games. Tactics are presented in order of difficulty so that players can advance from the simple to the complex positions. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority. Puzzles cover the gamut from straightforward moves right up to tricky traps. A book for chess winners! table { }tr { }col { }br { }td { padding: 0px; color: windowtext; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; white-space: nowrap; }.xl66 { font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }
Author: Fred Wilson Publisher: Cardoza Publishing ISBN: 1580425240 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 149
Book Description
An entertaining and instructive collection of carefully selected tactical chess puzzles will pay immediate dividends at the board and make any reader a better player. The authors both veteran professional chess instructors have collected or created 303 typical game situations. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority. Divided into three chapters, each filled with 101 large, clear diagrams, this book runs the entire gamut of necessary tactical knowledge. 303 Tricky Chess Puzzles is a perfect workbook for anyone who wants to sharpen their budding chess expertise.
Author: Fred Wilson Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated ISBN: 9781402711466 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
Presents a collection of 303 tactical chess puzzles, providing a means to test and improve strategic abilities and including solutions and explanations.
Author: Fred Wilson/Bruce Alberston Publisher: Cardoza Publishing ISBN: 1580425259 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
Both a fascinating challenge and great training tool, these tricky tactical problems are not only fun to solve but great for advanced beginners, intermediate, and expert players to use as tools to improve their game. Tactics are presented in order of difficulty so that players can advance from simple to complex positions. Examples from actual games illustrate a wide range of tactics from the classics right up to the current games. You'll learn to use pins, single and double forks, double attacks, skewers, discovered and double checks, multiple threat tactics and other crushing tactics as part of their problem-solving challenges. Great stuff and fun too! Illustrations
Author: Fred Wilson Publisher: Cardoza ISBN: 9781580423489 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
303 fascinating tactical chess problems are not only a fun challenge but a great training tool Both a fascinating challenge and great training tool, these tricky tactical problems are not only super fun to solve but great for beginners, advanced beginners, and intermediate players to use as tools to improve their game. Tactics are presented in order of difficulty so that players can advance from the simple to the complex positions. Examples from actual games illustrate a wide range of tactics from the straightforward moves right up to the tricky traps. Players learn to use pins, single and double forks, double attacks, skewers, discovered and double checks, multiple threat tactics–and other crushing tactics as part of their problem-solving challenges. Great stuff and fun too!
Author: Fred Wilson Publisher: Cardoza Publishing ISBN: 1580425232 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
A fascinating challenge and great training tool, these two- three- and four-move checkmates are great for beginning, intermediate, and expert players. Mates are in order of difficulty, from simple to very complex positions. Learn the standard patterns for cornering the king, corridor and support mates, attraction and deflection sacrifices, pins and annihilation, the quiet move, and the dreaded zugzwang. Mate challenges are presented from both Blacks and Whites perspective so players learn to see both sides of the board. Examples from old classics to the new millenium illustrate a wide range of ideas. This book is lots of fun and an easy way for a player to improve skills! 192 pages
Author: László Polgár Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal ISBN: 9781579129507 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book.. More than 6,000 illustrations make it easy to see the possibilities regardless of where your pieces are on the board. The book also includes the basic rules of the game and an international bibliography. Chess is the ultimate book on winning the game.
Author: Eric Schiller Publisher: Cardoza Publishing ISBN: 1580425186 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 251
Book Description
This collection of brilliant ideas from real tournaments is not just regular combinations or tactical swindles, but moves of stunning originality. Schiller has selected one hundred awesome moves, and through game positions, examples, and clearly explained concepts, shows players how to improve their grasp of deep positional understandings and swashbuckling tactics. You'll learn how to reinforce your gut instincts, to not just reach for the best move, but the inspired one. 288 pages.