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Back To Basics - Tactics

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Author: Dan Heisman
Publication Date: January 1, 2007
Notation Type: AN - Algebraic
Page Count: 192 Pages


Publisher: Russell
Author: Dan Heisman
Year of Publication: 2007

Pages: 192
Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)


Book DescriptionChess Tactics Can Be Fun!

Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun! This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about and benefiting from the recurring patterns of tactics. In chess, if you lose all your pieces you can't win! And if you capture each of your opponent's pieces, winning should be easy. Even if you just get ahead by a small amount of material, your chances of winning soar. The way to win your opponent's pieces is through the use of tactics. This book is about all types of beginning tactics. The author covers comprehensively the subject with basic instructional material, examples, and problems of all types - about 500 examples and problems ranging from too easy to very difficult! Back to Basics: Tactics - the first in the ChessCafe Back to Basics Chess Series and should enhance your enjoyment in learning about and benefiting from the recurring patterns of tactics.

It does not matter who gets the advantage out of the opening if one of the players is likely to lose a piece to a simple tactic in the middlegame. Losing a piece from an advantageous position will almost always result in a lost position. So study tactics, not openings, until you almost never lose pieces to simple tactical motifs.

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