100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know

Learn to Recognize Key Chess Moves

Frank Erwich

• Publisher: New in Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9789083387734
• Year: 2024

Chess is 99% tactics. A tactical pattern is all about immediate threats that produce immediate results. Learning the 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know will dramatically improve your performance.

This book is the long-awaited middlegame companion to 100 Endgames You Must Know, the all-time bestseller of all chess books published by New In Chess. In three hundred pages, experienced chess trainer Frank Erwich teaches you all the tactical patterns that

- occur most frequently

- are easy to learn

- Explain ideas that are useful in practical games

You will get a huge amount of clear, concise and easy-to-follow chess tactics instruction, ideal for every post-beginner, club player and candidate master who wants to win more games.

Table of contents

• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Explanation of symbols
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 – Double attack
• Chapter 2 – Discovered attacks and line clearances
• Chapter 3 – Skewers and pins
• Chapter 4 – Pinning bishop versus ♕+♘: battery
• Chapter 5 – Elimination of the defence
• Chapter 6 – Trapping pieces
• Chapter 7 – Promotion
• Chapter 8 – Drawing weapons
• Chapter 9 – Defensive weapons
• Chapter 10 – Queen manoeuvres and the weak f2/f7-point
• Chapter 11 – Attacking weapons
• Chapter 12 – Pattern combinations
• Index of names