1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts, Too

Masetti, Franco; Messa, Roberto

ISBN 10: 9056913972 / ISBN 13: 9789056913977

Published by New In Chess, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts, Too
• Publisher: New In Chess
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9056913972
• ISBN 13: 9789056913977
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Chess is 99% tactics! This well-known maxim may sound strange but is really just an exaggerated basic truth: if you want to win more games, nothing works better than training combinations. Solving many tactical puzzles is what makes the difference for beginners and casual players.

There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by a some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises. Chess masters Franco Masetti and Roberto Messa have done both: they explain the basic tactical ideas AND provide an enormous amount of exercises for each different theme.

1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners is a great first tactics book. It helps you in identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, in recognizing patterns of combinations, and in visualizing tricks.
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From the Back Cover

Chess is 99% tactics. If this celebrated observation is true for the master, how much more so for beginners and casual players! If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training combinations.

There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises.

Chess masters and trainers Franco Masetti and Roberto Messa have done both: they explain the basic tactical ideas AND provide an enormous amount of exercises for each different theme. Masetti and Messa have created a great first tactics book. It teaches you how to:

• identify weak spots in the position of your opponent
• recognize patterns of combinations
• visualize tricks.

1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners can also be used as a course text book, because only the most didactically productive exercises have been used.