1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players

The Tactics Workbook that Also Explains All Key Concepts

Frank Erwich

• Publisher: New in Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9789056918248
• Year: 2019

Chess is 99% tactics. This celebrated observation is not only true for beginners, but also for club players (Elo 1500 – 2000). If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training your combination skills. There are two types of books on tactics: those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain lots of exercises. FIDE Master Frank Erwich has done both: he explains all key tactical ideas AND provides an enormous amount of exercises for each different theme. Erwich has created a complete tactics book for ambitious club and tournament players. He teaches you how to reach the next level of identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, recognizing patterns of combinations, visualizing tricks and calculating effectively. Erwich has also included a new and important element: tests that will improve your defensive skills. 1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players is not a collection of freewheeling puzzles. It serves as a course text book, because only the most didactically productive exercises are featured. Every chapter starts with easy examples, but no worries: the level of difficulty will steadily increase.

Table of contents

• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Explanation of symbols
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Elimination of the Defence
• Chapter 2: Double Attack
• Chapter 3: Discovered Attack
• Chapter 4: Skewer
• Chapter 5: Pin
• Chapter 6: Trapping a piece
• Chapter 7: Promotion
• Chapter 8: Draw
• Chapter 9: Mate
• Chapter 10: Defending
• Chapter 11: Mix
• Chapter 12: Solutions
• Glossary