To group the tactical themes in this book I have largely used the categorization introduced by Cor van Wijgerden and the late Rob Brunia in their Step-by-Step Method. If you 7Ĥ 1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players prefer a bigger challenge, you can cover the hints with a piece of paper or a carbon card. The more you are focused on a particular kind of tactic, the better it will be incorporated into your system, and the better you will be able to apply it in your own games.
The reason why I have provided hints below the diagrams is that I want you to look in a specific direction. This means that for most exercises the solution is at least 2½ moves deep (i.e., 5 ply or more). For the execution of the right tactic in the right way, one or more preparatory moves are needed in many cases.
The solutions to all the exercises are given in Chapter 12. It s almost like playing a real game! So, in this chapter you can test your ability to use the skills you have gained in the previous chapters. Here, every exercise involves a combination of several different themes, and you won t find any hints below the diagrams. Here, you will be facing your own newly-acquired weapons! Chapter 11 is what we might call the Grand Finale. In Chapter 10, you are invited to take the opposite side, and required to defend against such tactics.
In Chapters 1-9 you will learn and practice how to win with the most fundamental tactics: Eliminating the defence, Double attack, and so on. But you can be pretty certain that any last exercise from any set in this book will be more challenging than the first.
Of course, the notion of level of difficulty is partly subjective. These subthemes are arranged in order of increasing difficulty. The names of these subthemes can be found in the hints in the second part of the hints (behind the + ) the aim or point of the move is given. Each chapter has a different theme, and within this theme the exercises are divided into subthemes. Nevertheless, with the huge amount and variety of these exercises, their difference in difficulty, and the hints given below the diagrams, I am convinced that this book will be of great value to any player with an Elo rating ranging from Every game fragment highlights a certain area of the tactical spectrum. It is not easy to offer appropriate teaching material for such a broad range of readers. Of course, this is a broad concept, as the levels of club players diverge enormously.
A broad selection of these fragments have made it into this book.
I have always had a great love for the royal game, and I have been a professional chess teacher in the Netherlands since During these seven years, I have collected thousands of tactical fragments from tournament chess practice for my pupils to study. If you agree with the famous Greek philosopher, then this is the right book for you! By working through these 1001 (!) exercises you will train your tactical skills extensively, and I am sure this will make you a much stronger chess tactician. 1 Frank Erwich 1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players The Tactics Workbook that Also Explains All the Key Concepts New In Chess 2019Ģ Contents Explanation of symbols.6 Introduction.7 Chapter 1 Elimination of the Defence.9 Chapter 2 Double Attack.23 Chapter 3 Discovered Attack.33 Chapter 4 Skewer.41 Chapter 5 Pin Chapter 6 Trapping a piece.55 Chapter 7 Promotion Chapter 8 Draw.75 Chapter 9 Mate.85 Chapter 10 Defending Chapter 11 Mix Chapter 12 Solutions Glossaryģ Introduction For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them Aristotle.