Winning Chess Tactics (revised edition)

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Description / Winning Chess Tactics (revised edition)

Learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the worlds top chess players. Attack? Defend? Swap pieces?

Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush your opponent and quite possiblychange the course of a game in a single move. Why play in a fog, only hoping that your opponent will blunder when International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan can show you how to put the tactics of the worlds chess legends to work for you.

Choose from the double attack, the pin, the skewer, deflection, the cor, x-rays, windmills and many more time-tested tactics. Using classic board situations arranged in chapters by tactical themes, Seirawan teaches you how to:

  • Plan your entire game from the very first move.Think ahead, step-by-step, anticipating every obstacle your opponent can throw your way
  • Position yourself for the smashing combination and endgame you've always dreamed of

Board positions from actual games played by historys great chess tacticians are provided throughout. Review tests for each topic let you track your improvement. In no time you'll be playing better, with more confidence than you ever thought possible.


More Information

Weight 410.000000
Publisher Everyman
Number of pages 242
Publication date Sep 15, 2003
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