The book will be a valuable resource for club and improving players, and it will give the reader many hours of instruction and entertainment. Detailed solutions are provided for all the exercises, and they have been computer-checked by several strong chess engines for accuracy. There is only one first move for each exercise that achieves this goal.

In some positions, there may be several moves that lead to checkmate, but the quickest mate is required. The goal of each exercise is to find the quickest mate.

Hence, the exercises gradually extend the reader's visualisation skills, as well as improving checkmating skills. The format of the book means that the level of visualisation required to solve the exercises increases by one half-move (or ply in computer chess terms) with each chapter. The task is to visualise this move, and then to find the mate. In the second chapter, the position is given before the losing move is made. In the first chapter for the particular mate, the position is given just before the mate is possible, and the reader is required to find the mate. The mate in 1, 2 and 3 exercises are split into two chapters for each mate. The book contains mate in 1, 2, 3 and 4 exercises. The large collection of exercises is complemented by a format that is also designed to improve the reader's visualisation skills. We have thus consulted leading teachers and masters with extensive training experience working in chess academies and club courses so as to best identify the most productive positions and exercises to use.Improve your game by studying 1001 all-new checkmate exercises! This book presents 1001 checkmate exercises from recent tournament games, and they are aimed at club players or other players who want to improve their skills in this essential area of chess. This book is intended not only for personal use, but also as a course text book. It is here that we explain the ideas behind crucial tactical motifs such as double attack, the pin and skewer, as well as pawn promotion, drawing techniques, etc. The introductions to each chapter are particularly instructive. You should therefore not touch or move the pieces before having made your decision, perhaps writing down the possible variations before you check the solutions at the back of the book. While the easier problems can be solved without a chess board, we suggest that for the more difficult ones you set up the positions on a board and try to find the solution as if you were playing a real game. This book starts with hundreds of essential mating positions that train immediate visual recognition first there are the easier mate in one or two move exercises then there are exercises for various crucial tactical motifs that must be mastered by any aspiring chess player these are followed by more demanding positions where these various motifs are often combined. Strategy is of little use if you have not first mastered the fundamentals of tactics. It cannot be stressed enough that a knowledge of This book focuses on the crucial positions that every chess player must know. There is no doubt that the best way to acquire good tactical vision is to do exercises that teach you toĬombination. By far and away, the quickest and most effective way to improve your chess performance is to increase your tactical skill so that at a glance you are able to see the typical mating patterns and material-winning tactical motifs that so often decide a game. Mixed motifs: Black Mate in three Mate in four Curiositiesġ3 25 29 35 39 43 47 53 57 61 65 71 75 93Ĭhess is 99% tactics! If this celebrated observation is true for the master, how much more so for the beginner and club player.

1001 Checkmate Exercises - Advanced Edition (Cicero 2018) - Read book online for free. Translation: Richard Jones Cover design: Volken Beck ISBN 978-90-5691-397-7ĭiscovered attack Discovered check Double check Pinĭecoy sacrifice Pawn promotion Drawing tactics Mate in 1: Exercises 1 - 100 Mate in 1: Exercises 101 - 200 Mate in 2: Exercises 201 - 400 Mate in 2: Exercises 401 - 500 Mate in 3: Exercises 501 - 700 Mate in 3: Exercises 701 - 800 Mate in 4: Exercises 801 - 900 Mate in 4: Exercises 901 - 950.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission from the publisher. The tactics workbook that explains the basic concepts, tooĮnglish edition published by New In Chess, Alkmaar, The Netherlands 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners Translated from 1001 Esercizi per Principianti This edition is published by arrangement with Le Due Torri - Chess Department Store - Italy- All rights reserved.

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