How is Winning Chess by Chernev and Reinfeld organised?

Winning Chess: How to perfect your attacking play by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld was originally published in 1970. Batsford published an algebraic edition in 2013. 

Based on the description, it is not simply a tactics book even though tactics are obviously relevant. What sort of themes does it cover? Does it discuss attacks on specific types of pawn structures? Does it heavily rely on annotated games? Does it contain puzzles or tests?

Chernev/Reinfeld's "Winning Chess" is fundamentally a tactical training book for beginners to intermediate players (rated roughly 1000-1500 ELO) that teaches attacking patterns through tactical motifs (forks, pins, etc.), mating patterns, progressive difficulty examples, positional-based puzzles, and interactive testing component. It's similar to books like "Fischer teaches chess" in its puzzle/test format, but focused more on attacking play rather than just checkmates. Think of it as a pattern recognition trainer for middle-game tactics and attacks. It does not discuss on specific types of pawn structures, the book's focus is on tactical patterns and attacking techniques, not systematic discussion of how to attack based on pawn structure types. If you're looking for deep strategic treatment of attacking based on pawn structures, this is not that book, but if you want to improve your tactical vision and ability to spot winning attacking moves in the middle-game, this is exactly what it's designed for. Ciao

P.S. The format itself is essentially "puzzle-like": this is a position, and you find the winning move.

Thanks. One of the things I wanted to know is whether it introduces tactical patterns etc by theme. (I can't get a preview or table of contents anywhere.) One of the reviews on Amazon says, " A Batsford book with many diagrams explaining different winning techniques, it has knight forks, discovered check, double check, the skewer, the surprise move, queening combinations, the overworked piece, mating patterns and much more. " That sounds very similar to Susan Polgar's book Chess Tactics for Champions and Dan Heisman's Back to Basics: Tactics.

But Winning Chess also contains a number of illustrative games (according to the same review on Amazon) and Polgar's book doesn't have those.

Yes, "Winning Chess" is organized by tactical themes; it's structured with 20 chapters (pins, Knight forks, double attack, discovered check, double check, skewer, etc.) on tactics, each focusing on a specific theme (similar to Polgar & Heisman), plus a final chapter with 6 illustrative games. These 6 illustrative games are significant because they show how tactical themes actually appear in real game contexts, not just as "isolated" puzzles. There are two diagrams per position: the first shows the initial position for you to solve, and the second shows the solution position after the winning sequence. In terms of thematic coverage all three book sound similar, but the 6 games make "Winning Chess" genuinely different and potentially more valuable; it combines both systematic tactics training and practical game examples. Ciao