"An extremely useful training manual. Many club players will benefit."
1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players
The Tactics Workbook that Also Explains All Key Concepts
Description
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.
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"Good work! Lots of exercises, not many words, just what I like. The chapter on defense, in particular, is very clever. One is so accustomed to attacking combinations, but tactics can be used in defense as well."
"I was very impressed by the range of positions that Erwich selected. A good book of its kind! Four stars!"
"The material at the beginning of each chapter is clearly explained; the exercises which follow will certainly improve readers' vision, calculation and tactical memory banks."
