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

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

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.<br /><br /><br />There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises.<br /><br /><br />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:<br /><br />¯ identify weak spots in the position of your opponent<br /><br />¯ recognize patterns of combinations<br /><br />¯ visualize tricks.<br /><br />1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners can also be used as a course text book, because only the most didactically productive exercises have been used.