Tactics

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Chess : 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games by Laszlo Polgar and Bruce Pandolfini

A big book of chess puzzles with problems suitable for beginners to master players. Begins with mate in one puzzles and gradually increases in difficulty.  These puzzles were used by the father of the Polgar sisters, Lazlo, to teach them the game.

Winning Chess Tactics by Yasser Seirawan and Jeremy Silman

This is the second book in this series. The first part of the book deals with basic tactics such as double attacks, pins, skewers, decoys, x-rays etc. and how they can be used individually and in combination. In the second part, Seirawan introduces some of the great chess tacticians and their games, further illustrating tactics as they work out in real-life play. An excellent book to improve your tactical play.

Chess Combinations: The Improving Player's Puzzle Book by John Walker

This new book consists of puzzles arranged by tactical theme followed by a larger section of mixed puzzles.

Sharpen Your Tactics by Anatoly Lein

Midwest Book Review
Sharpen Your Tactics! features 1125 brilliant sacrifices, combinations and studies of chess by Grandmaster Anatoly Lein. Hundreds of these examples of chess wizardry have never before been available in the west. Sharpen Your Tactics! is a unique training book that will be of immense benefit to both the novice and the experienced chess player. Indeed, every class of chess player will benefit from the insights and examples provided by Grandmaster Lein. The examples are rated by difficulty, from easy to very challenging. The problems gradually become more difficult as the reader moves through the book, leading the chess player deeper into the world of high-level chess tactics. Sharpen Your Tactics! will significantly improve the playing of any serious chess student!

Chess Tactics by Paul Littlewood

Explains various tactics such as pins, skewers, double attack, discovered attack, back rank combinations, overloading, deflection, decoying, removal of defence, interception, space clearance, zwischenzug etc, how to incorporate them into your games and how to defend against them. A good book to help you improve your tactical play.

Combination Challenge by Lou Hays

With 1154 examples, you have a lifetime of material to study and restudy. Pattern recognition is very best method for improving your game and you learn it in Combination Challenge! It is divided into the following theme chapters -- 1.Back Rank mates 2.Pins 3.Queen sacrifices 4.Overloading 5.Knight forks 6.Double attack 7.Discovery 8.Diversion 9.Clearance 10.Attraction 11.Smorgasbord (various mixed themes in one chapter).

Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors by Lou Hays

This book is an easier version of Combination Challenge!, also by Lou Hays. It contains 535 one- two- and three-move combinations to solve and teaches a study method for learning to play combinative chess. This is the quickest and easiest way to improve your chess rapidly.

1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations by Fred Reinfeld

1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate by Fred Reinfeld

Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player by Sam Palatnik

Art of the Checkmate by Georges Renaud and Victor Kahn

 

200 Classic Chess Puzzles by Martin Greif (Editor)

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