Chess Tactics ; Book Suggestions for Novices?

Hello ! I am a 1250 player and I am intrested in buying a tactics book!I 've searched it and I decided that I would choose one of these :

1. Winning Chess Tactics (Yasser Seirawan)

2.)The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book (John Emms)

3.)1001 Exercises for Beginners (Franco Masseti)

4.)Looking for Trouble (Dan Heisman)

It would take a few mins to help me ;)!!!Which one should I buy?Plz...

The Emms book is for the intermediate/advanced player and may not fit your needs.

combinative motifs blokh (ct art in paper)

1) Winning Chess Tactics is a good book to learn what the chess tactics are along with some exercises.  If you don't know what a "windmill" is, he explains it to you and gives examples.

Never looked at 2) & 3)

4) Is more of a book about using tactics defensively, in the sense that, you recognize potential tactics against you and take steps to avoid the threat.  I wouldn't use it as a first book of tactics because you have to be good at tactics 1st to recognize what's being threatened against you.

The Seirawan book would be fine, although my recommended go to 1st tactics book is Bain's - Chess Tactics for Students.  It more or less assumes you know what a fork or pin is and just gives you a bunch of exercises on a particular theme.

So Seirawan if you don't know what tactics are and want them explained to you in words as well as examples.  Bain if you know what they are but need a good beginner's tactics workbook to go through.  I don't know how many problems there are in the Seirawan book, but Bain has almost 400 exercises to go through, not including the comprehensive test at the end that are just problems from the previous chapters in random order.

Combinative Motifs/CT-Art 3.0 is too advanced to start with.

i don't like the book of seirawan, in tactics just exercice is enought.

with the ct art book there is a lot of beginner exercices.

(i had both and combinative motif is the good i still use, not the other).

This:

http://www.caissa-chess.com/shop/index.php?searchStr=dobrinecki&act=viewCat&Submit=Go

And don't worry about the language - you don't need to know Russian.

Nothing worse in the chess world than a tactics book targeted for anyone between beginner or expert level.

The series is ordered by the player's level, so you start with the 1st book, then 2nd etc.

Believe me or not, it is a great exercise series...

Well the price is pretty cheap.  How many exercises per book?

Book I - 630 exercises

Book II - 540 exercises

Book III - 510 exercises

Book IV (endgame) - 516 exercises

I think that it's quite a lot... Some people consider the series as a kind of contemporary equivalent of the legendary Ivaschenko's series (see:

http://www.caissa-chess.com/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=161

http://www.caissa-chess.com/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=162)

Quite a few good books have already been mentioned and I could certainly add to the list.

But there's an appropriate saying:

The best book is the one you read.

Choose a book and study it. You will improve, but only if you put the work into it.

One good way to save money is to go to your local library and see what they have. Most public libraries carry several interesting chess books.

USCF needs to come out with a service like Safari Books.  They'd make a killing.

If you want the best book on tactics it would be 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combination by Fred Reinfeld; it covers every area in tactics. This book alone will make you stronger and a better player. Look up this book and read the reviews.

I think you should add, How to Tune Your Chess Tactics Antenna, by Emmanuel Neiman, to your list.

I'm in the middle of rereading this book, and it really is an outstanding piece of work. 

http://www.amazon.it/Tune-Your-Chess-Tactics-Antenna/dp/9056914049

One of the best books for beginners is Polgar's books, John Bain's Chess tactics for students and there are a few others.  You need to solve easy problems first until you can recognize the pattern,after that you'll be on your way to solving harder problems