Chessboard Combat
eBook - ePub

Chessboard Combat

The Give and Take of Chess Tactics

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Chessboard Combat

The Give and Take of Chess Tactics

About this book

Chess students love a Puzzle Rush. And solving tactics puzzles certainly helps you improve your pattern recognition and will help you find good moves in tournament games. But there is a downside to most tactics puzzles — we always know who is supposed to win!

Chess in real life is different, not just because no one taps us on the shoulder and tells us to look for a tactic. Sometimes tactics work, and sometimes they don't. Sometimes your opponent has a few tricks up their sleeve, too.

This book shows the reality of chess tactics. It explores a chess player's challenges over the board: attack, defense, and counterattack! It exposes the actual give-and-take nature of chess tactics.

American grandmaster Joel Benjamin, a three-time U.S. Champion, was inspired by the 20th-century classic Chess Traps, Pitfalls, and Swindles by legendary chess authors Fred Reinfeld and Israel Albert Horowitz. With modern examples, Benjamin arouses the same spirit of fun and enjoyment. With a generous amount of puzzles in quiz form, this manual will help chess students sharpen their tactical skills and be ready to strike - or counterstrike.

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Information

Publisher
New in Chess
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9789493257849

Table of contents

  1. Copyright Page
  2. Contents
  3. Explanation of symbols
  4. Introduction
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Chapter 1 Strike, Counterstrike
  7. Chapter 2 The King Is a Fighting Piece
  8. Chapter 3 Dodging Defenses
  9. Chapter 4 Staying Alive
  10. Chapter 5 Trying Too Hard to Win
  11. Chapter 6 Back Rank Tactics
  12. Chapter 7 In the Beginning... and in the End
  13. Chapter 8 Whoops!
  14. Chapter 9 Tactical Tips
  15. Index of names
  16. Sources