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ed1975

Mar 25, 2017

#21

Update #2: So I've been on Amazon and trawlled through the chess tactics offerings and come to these results for teaching stuff which is available electronically:

- Improve Your Chess Tactics: 700 Practical Lessons & Exercises (Neishstadt)

- Winning Chess Tactics (Seirawan)

- Learn Chess Tactics (Nunn)

- Back to Basics: Tactics (Heisman)

- CT-ART 6.0 (the most expensive!)

Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks.

jambyvedar2

Mar 25, 2017

#22

ed1975 wrote:

Update #2: So I've been on Amazon and trawlled through the chess tactics offerings and come to these results for teaching stuff which is available electronically:

- Improve Your Chess Tactics: 700 Practical Lessons & Exercises (Neishstadt)

- Winning Chess Tactics (Seirawan)

- Learn Chess Tactics (Nunn)

- Back to Basics: Tactics (Heisman)

- CT-ART 6.0 (the most expensive!)

Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks.

If you can only afford one book, get the Seirawan book. If you can afford two books, get the Seirawan book and The Learn Chess Tactics by Nunn. The other tactics books are more advance.

Quasimorphy

Mar 25, 2017

#23

ed1975 wrote:

Update: I've just looked at Predator on Amazon. Two big heavy books. Not available on Kindle. And expensive.

Take a look at the Predator at the Chessboard website if you haven't already:

http://chesstactics.org

ed1975

Mar 25, 2017

#24

Thanks!

kindaspongey

Mar 25, 2017

#25

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233820/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review422.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner

RussBell

Mar 25, 2017

#26

ed1975 wrote:

Thanks guys for your praise of Predator. I was looking for a book that teaches - and then tests - tactics and I was torn between Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics book and this one.

I have Chernev/Reinfeld's Winning Chess but have found it disappointing.

FYI - Irving Chernev wrote 2 books with Fred Reinfeld, the titles of which begin with "Winning Chess....."

This one, which I consider to be nothing particularly special...

"Winning Chess - How to See Three Moves Ahead..."...

https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess-Three-Moves-Ahead/dp/0671211145/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1490505193&sr=1-9&keywords=Irving+chernev

and this one, which I think is an excellent tactics primer....

"Winning Chess: How to Perfect Your Attacking Play"...

https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess-Perfect-Attacking-Batsford/dp/1849941106/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1490505193&sr=1-7&keywords=Irving+chernev

ed1975

Mar 26, 2017

#27

Thanks Russ. I have the second one of those books. Still didn't find it suited my style much though. You can see my 2-star review on Amazon.co.uk.

kindaspongey

Mar 26, 2017

#28

RussBell wwrote:

... Irving Chernev wrote 2 books with Fred Reinfeld, the titles of which begin with "Winning Chess....."

This one, which I consider to be nothing particularly special...

"Winning Chess - How to See Three Moves Ahead..."...

https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess-Three-Moves-Ahead/dp/0671211145/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1490505193&sr=1-9&keywords=Irving+chernev

and this one, which I think is an excellent tactics primer....

"Winning Chess: How to Perfect Your Attacking Play"...

https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess-Perfect-Attacking-Batsford/dp/1849941106/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1490505193&sr=1-7&keywords=Irving+chernev

I believe that one of those is an algebraic edition of the other.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf

There is another book by Reinfeld and Chernev, but, if I remember correctly, it was called Chess Strategy and Tactics and it did not have the word, Winning, in the title.

Goram

Mar 26, 2017

#29

a chess book named how to see three moves ahead!?it tells all about it's contain !