Both The Complete Chess Workout and Practical Chess Excercises are good and might be what you are looking for.
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I like Laszlo Polgars Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games.
The_Joy_of_Rooking wrote:
I like Laszlo Polgars Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games.
Failed to read the requirement: "does not focus on checkmates". 4462/5334 of the problems, combinations, and games are checkmate problems.
Thanks for the advice though jdthompson, practical chess exercises seems like a great choice for me!
The Complete Chess Work-Out is great.
This is one I like.
http://www.amazon.com/Combination-Challenge-Lou-Hays/dp/188067386X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221372324&sr=1-3
also nice is :
http://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Winning-Chess-Sacrifices-Combinations/dp/0879801115/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221372402&sr=1-1
I've got a lot of wear on both of these titles. 1001 sac and combo is a bit more portable, but the other isn't bad to carry either.
MBickley wrote:
The_Joy_of_Rooking wrote:
I like Laszlo Polgars Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games. Failed to read the requirement: "does not focus on checkmates". 4462/5334 of the problems, combinations, and games are checkmate problems. Thanks for the advice though jdthompson, practical chess exercises seems like a great choice for me!
Ahh yes I did not see that one, sorry.
The other one that I would reccomend then is by Reinfeld (not sure of the full title but it has "1001 somewhere in it").
I personally find Mate in 2's to be better training for tactical acumen than middle game motif-based positions, but to each their own.
Hello, I'm trying to get better at tactics so I'm looking for a book on tactical motifs, but the only suggestion I've gotten considering my tactical ability is CT-ART 3.0. But I want to do some puzzles on the bus, at lunch, and I'm not fond of using a computer program for my tactical puzzles. So I'm wondering if anybody knows of a tactical puzzle book that: