The best advice for chess players who want to improve quickly is: get better at tactics!
Simply because the vast majority of amateur games is decided through tactics you will immediately start beating more opponents when you improve your tactical skills.
Experienced Russian master Jakov Neishtadt has selected those examples from the games of masters that have the biggest instructional value for club players.
In the first part of the book Neishstadt teaches a systematic course on the most important tactical themes.
The second part consist of an exam with hundreds of tests from real-life chess, in random order so as not to give unwelcome hints on how to solve them. The solutions are not just lists of moves, but include instructive prose.
Martin Eden, SoloSchacchi:
I challenge every body to show me that after careful study of this fantastic book he has not be come at least a Candidate Master.
Daniel King, the Guardian:
The last section is a giant examination of 356 positions where themes are mixed - so it's a truer test of your skill. Solutions are carefully explained and the layout is clean, generous and attractive.
Max Euwe Centre, Amsterdam:
After you have worked your way through this book and learned a lot, you will be a crack tactician.
Alexander Nikitin, Garry Kasparov's coach:
A great book!
E. Carl, Europa Rochade Magazine:
A high-level tactics manual for quite a friendly price.
Paul Motwani, The Scotsman:
Superb.
Joe Petrolito, Australasian Chess Magazine:
An excellent feature of the book is the extensive coverage of combined tactical themes.
Richard Vedder, Schakers.info:
Excellent training material for those who want to improve their tactical abilities. My personal favorites are the 'Miracle Saves'.
Marshtower Chess Reviews:
It's a great collection, featuring positions from every phase of the game and set out very nicely by New In Chess.
logozar
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I see that I've already discussed this here... if the point of Chessable is to memorize patterns, then why memorize an inferior pattern? I can pause, but Chessable has been working to optimize efficiency and that should also be done for efficient checkmates.
9 hours ago
logozar
10,637,170
A different Chessable book (Reinfield tactics) counts this as incorrect as Reinfield refuses to give an inferior mate as the main line. The text itself clarifies that is better, showing the other move mainly because it was what was played in the game. Also, some Chessable problems have already been corrected like this, nobody would complain about an improvement.
9 hours ago
c0rias
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Hey guys!
This one is pretty straight forward - would it be okay to make the whole variation playable, please?
Thank you in advance! :-)
1 week ago
Benedictine
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6.Neg5 should be a soft fail move here, not Nfg5 which is the line given in the position. (The wrong soft fail move has been inserted.)
1 week ago
CoffeeNerd
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White's third move can be 3.Qa8 or 3.Qc8 as well as the given 3.Qb8, which all result in a mate in 6 with best play on each side according to Stockfish 8.. Please consider these moves as alternates. Also if Hubner missed the final deflection, shouldn't the move he played be listed as 3,Qf7, not 1.Qf7?
1 week ago
LrntSaltoflife
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maybe 2...Nd4 3.Qd1 Nxd2 4.Qxd2 Nf3+! should be added to the puzzle, as without this continuation, 1...d3 looks a bit random :-)
2 weeks ago
