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1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners Second Edition 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.

1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners

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.

Second Edition

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.

This second edition even easier to work with! We have changed the design to six puzzles per page, which hugely improves the usability of the book, just like we already did with

its follow-up editions for (advanced) club players.

1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners

This book focuses on the crucial positions that every chess player must know. It cannot be stressed enough that a knowledge of strategy is of little use if you have not first mastered the

fundamentals of tactics. 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. While the easier problems can be solved without a chessboard, 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. 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. The introductions to each chapter are particularly instructive. It is here that we explain the ideas behind crucial tactical motifs

1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners

such as the double attack, the pin and the skewer, as well as pawn promotion, drawing techniques, etc. This book is intended not only for personal use, but also as a course text book.

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.

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