Overview
Chess is 99% tactics. This celebrated observation is not only true for beginners, but also for club players (Elo 1500 2000). If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training your combination skills. There are two types of books on tactics: those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain lots of exercises. FIDE Master Frank Erwich has done both: he explains all the key tactical ideas AND provides an enormous amount of exercises for each different theme. Erwich has created a complete tactics book for ambitious club and tournament players. He takes you to the next level of identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, recognizing patterns of combinations, visualizing tricks and calculating effectively. Erwich has also included a new and important element: tests that will improve your defensive skills. 1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players is not a freewheeling collection of puzzles. It serves as a course text book, because only the most didactically productive exercises are featured. Every chapter starts with easy examples, but dont worry: the level of difficulty will steadily increase.
Full Product Details
Author: Frank Erwich
Publisher: New In Chess
Imprint: New In Chess
Weight: 0.366kg
ISBN: 9789056918194
ISBN 10: 9056918192
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 03 April 2019
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Not available
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Reviews
""A modern puzzle rush for a new generation of book lovers.""--Gary Lane, International Master ""Chess Moves Magazine"" ""A well-thought out tactics book aimed at players rated from 1500-2000. One of the better exercise books to come out in recent years.""--John Donaldson, International master, International Master ""An extremely useful training manual. Many club players will benefit.""--Herman Grooten, International Master ""Shaaksite"" ""Erwich's book will help players of 1500-2000 Elo to discover and prepare tactical tricks. These will often decide the game immediately, but sometimes they will lead to an advantage that will need to be converted in the endgame.""--B.H. Wilders ""Nederlands Dagblad"" ""Good work! Lots of exercises, not many words, just what I like. The chapter on defense, in particular, is very clever. One is so accustomed to attacking combinations, but tactics can be used in defense as well.""--Simen Agdestein, Grandmaster ""VG Daily News"" ""I was very impressed by the range of positions that Erwich selected. A good book of its kind! Four stars!""--Matthew Sadler ""The material at the beginning of each chapter is clearly explained; the exercises which follow will certainly improve readers' vision, calculation and tactical memory banks.""-- ""CHESS Magazine""
An extremely useful training manual. Many club players will benefit. --Herman Grooten, International Master Shaaksite Good work! Lots of exercises, not many words, just what I like. The chapter on defense, in particular, is very clever. One is so accustomed to attacking combinations, but tactics can be used in defense as well. --Simen Agdestein, Grandmaster VG Daily News I was very impressed by the range of positions that Erwich selected. A good book of its kind! Four stars! --Matthew Sadler, Grandmaster, award-winning author of 'Chess for Life' The material at the beginning of each chapter is clearly explained; the exercises which follow will certainly improve readers' vision, calculation and tactical memory banks. --CHESS Magazine Erwich's book will help players of 1500-2000 Elo to discover and prepare tactical tricks. These will often decide the game immediately, but sometimes they will lead to an advantage that will need to be converted in the endgame. --B.H. Wilders Nederlands Dagblad A well-thought out tactics book aimed at players rated from 1500-2000. One of the better exercise books to come out in recent years. --John Donaldson, International master, International Master A modern puzzle rush for a new generation of book lovers. --Gary Lane, International Master Chess Moves Magazine
Author Information
Frank Erwich is a FIDE Master and an experienced chess trainer from the Netherlands. He holds a Masters degree in Psychology. In 2019 he published the bestselling 1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players.
