Description
Paperback, 176 pages, Everyman Chess 2006
Once you have figured out how all the chess pieces move, what is the next step up the chess ladder? This helpful and entertaining book provides you with the complete answer. In this easy-to-follow guide, renowned chess teacher Chris Ward explains all the crucial checkmating patterns, plus how to catch out your opponents with an assortment of tricks and traps, commonly known as chess tactics. There is something for everyone in this book: improving players can benefit from learning the basic checkmates and the key tactics such as attacking and defending pieces, forks, pins and skewers, while more experienced players can discover the delights of advanced checkmates and sneaky tricks, ones that can flummox even the world's best players!
Learning chess tactics is fun and one of the quickest ways of improving your chess, and it's even more enjoyable when your opponents begin falling for your tricks! Read this book and, with the help of a Grandmaster, you will be ready to unleash your weapons in your chess battles, whoever your opponent may be.
*An ideal chess tactics and checkmates guide for the improving player
*Written by a distinguished chess author
*Full of notes, tips and warnings to help the reader
Chris Ward is a Grandmaster and a former British Champion. He is also a highly successful chess teacher, having coached many of England's top junior players, and a popular author thanks to his attractive and humorous style. His earlier works for Everyman Chess include It's Your Move and the best-selling Improve Your Opening Play.
Learning chess tactics is fun and one of the quickest ways of improving your chess, and it's even more enjoyable when your opponents begin falling for your tricks! Read this book and, with the help of a Grandmaster, you will be ready to unleash your weapons in your chess battles, whoever your opponent may be.
*An ideal chess tactics and checkmates guide for the improving player
*Written by a distinguished chess author
*Full of notes, tips and warnings to help the reader
Chris Ward is a Grandmaster and a former British Champion. He is also a highly successful chess teacher, having coached many of England's top junior players, and a popular author thanks to his attractive and humorous style. His earlier works for Everyman Chess include It's Your Move and the best-selling Improve Your Opening Play.
Chris Ward is a Grandmaster and a former British Champion. He is also a highly successful chess teacher, having coached many of England's top junior players, and a popular author thanks to his attractive and humorous style. His earlier works for Everyman Chess include It's Your Move and the best-selling Improve Your Opening Play.
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