Fundamental Chess Tactics

A Step-by-Step Guide to Stepping Up Your Combinations

Looking at master games, you might recognize a basic tactic that decides the game. But often, the question remains: “how did they see it so many moves away?”

It’s no grandmaster magic: it’s all about recognizing the potential for a tactic and putting the ideas in the right order.

Easier said than done! But with Antonio Gude’s Fundamental Chess Tactics, you’ll get a carefully woven guide to building and bridging these essential chess skills.

Graduate from Easy to Expert with this Structured Approach to Chess Tactics

Through seven chapters on the most critical tactical skills, you’ll gradually train your tactical ability from simple 1-2 punches to long, forcing combinations.

Each chapter is divided into two parts. In the first part, you’ll learn how to spot the right conditions for that type of tactic with Gude’s detailed explanations and helpful hints. You’ll also learn the many variations that tactic might come in, teaching you how you can harness the power of that tactic by broadening your view.

The second part of each chapter is full of controlled exercises that ingrain the patterns into your memory - keeping the hint but forcing you to think more on your own. Each problem is coded by difficulty - easy, medium, or hard - so you can gradually work up to tactical mastery.

Finally, you’ll take the training wheels off completely in six test chapters where hints are hidden from view. Get a practical feel for over-the-board tactics with a mix of tactics at various difficulties!

Master the Most Critical Tactical Skills

Fundamental does not necessarily mean easy. Rather, it means you’ll be learning the essential tactical skills required to be a competent chess player. You’ll learn how to:

♞Smash open the enemy castle by taking advantage of weak pawn structure

♞Master the art of making simultaneous threats - learn the subtleties of executing this critical tactic with every piece

♞ Improve your pawn play by conquering tactical themes like promotion, underpromotion, pawn wedges, and the kamikaze pawn

♞ Save the game from a weak position by firmly grasping drawing techniques

And more. You’ll even learn how you can tie them all together in integrated exercises.

True understanding is being able to break it down piece by piece. Learn the essential tactical building blocks in chess and the glue to put them together with Fundamental Chess Tactics.