1000 checkmate combinations - Viktor Henkin
Good chess tactics books to add to here?
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1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combination 21st-century editions - Fred Reinfeld
Encyclopedia of chess combinations - N. M. Kalinichenko
Dynamic decision making in chess - Boris Gelfand
Hello. I was always interested in chess books, periodically ordered myself some books or magazines about tactics, combinations, schemes, game reviews. Of course I'm not very experienced in tactics, but it was always interesting to delve into the techniques of combinations in the game
Thanks you for all of you now solving puzzles
If the OP has solved ll the puzzles in all those books, it's time for him to write a tactics book!
Perfect your Chess is quite an advanced book.
Very much so but it's also quite fun (I recall the chapter inviting people to find a move without calculating too much to create a vision and the example were often spectacular). I also see he has extreme chess tactics and imagination in chess who are also quite challenging
What do you mean by vision? I only know pattern recognition which means that we can quickly identify the tactical and positional features of a position. What do you mean by vision? Is it the same?
Vision is a combination of things.
1) Can you find candidate moves quickly. Are you quick to find candidates that entail hanging a piece or moving a pawn to an attacked square? Or are you of the "piece is attacked, must move piece" mentality. If you are the latter, you have poor vision.
2) When you consider a move, and calculate 5 moves deep, do you just see the fork at the end of it? Or do you mentally see the entire position and realize the whole thing fails because of a checkmate your opponent has after you take the forked piece? If you cannot see the whole board and only see the fork tactic, you have poor vision.
3) Can you solve the following chess problem WITHOUT using a board? You cannot draw a board either. All you can use is your brain and look at the below list of pieces and squares they are currently sitting on.
W: Kg1, Qa3, Re1, Nc7, Pa2, Pb2, Pf2, Pg2, Ph2
B: Kg8, Qc2, Rf8, Bd8, Pa7, Pb7, Pf7, Pg7, Ph7
White to move!
The problem itself is not hard at all, but can you figure it out without using a board? If you can't, you have poor vision.
Hope this better explains to you the concept of vision.
Couldn't have explained better