Hi,

I'm looking for a tactics book for 1800+ Elo. I'm around 1600 Elo but my tactics are my strong point. I looked at 1001 deadly checkmates in a shop which the target audience is 1800elo, I found the book extremely easy as I solved every problem within seconds

, even the ones at the later part of the book which are supposed to be harder. I want a book which has difficult tactics and studies, like from 5 to 10 moves combination studies which I could take up to 30 mins on each puzzle If I need so much time. I don't want any 2 move tactics.

( I'm unrated but my guess is that I'm 1600)

how do you do wiyh chess.com mentor program.

bcoburn2 wrote:

how do you do wiyh chess.com mentor program.

I haven't done it for a while because I didn't have diamond membership until a few days ago.

But chess mentor is not tactics it's about positional understanding and strategy.

I want a book with studies based on concrete calculation

You want advanced tactics books? 

You dont want 2 move tactics?

But you miss a mate in 1?

Chess is concrete calculation, not just tactics.  What are the schools teaching kids nowadays???

Reply to I_Am_Second : I don't know where you got the information that I miss a mate in one, nor do I care. You haven't answered my question so I don't know why you are posting here. In relation to your last post , there is a difference between positional understanding and tactics , let's just leave it at that.

@alek: I have a solution for you. PM me.

I was reviewing some of your games, and obviously you care, you repsonded, and thats ok. 

I am posting here because you asked a questionm, and i answered.  Now it may not be the answer you were looking for, but its something you need to think about, no matter how much you want to disagree. 

Chess is calculation.  Whether youre calculating tactics, strategy, etc.  Its still calculation.  Your tactics are decent, but your study needs to be on strategy. 

To I Am Second: the games that you reviewed were probably were blitz. When I had mate in 1 I would definitely not miss it. It was either time pressure or I was trying to get a position where I have a knight and bishop checkmate, to practice my checkmate if it occurred in otb. I am looking for a book recommendation. What I mean is that I want a book for calculation, not strategy. There are classifications in which certain chess books are placed into. I already have resources for my strategic improvement. The strategic books are about outposts and how to slowly grind your opponent, however that is calculating it is also knowledge. A 800 Elo may not realize that there is a certain square where his knight is perfect whilst a 2000elo will see it straight away, it is sort of like a pattern.

John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book (1906454035) has had good reiews and Nunn is not only a great chess author but has also won the World Chess Solving Championshiop a few times, which makes him ideally suited to creating such a compendium of puzzles. 

Don't listen to that weirdo who was insulting you and not answering your question: he's a troll. 

To chyss: thank you very much:) good answer, straight to the point and exactly what I was looking for :)

I just looked at some reviews on this book, nice to see that everyone says that it's very advanced. By the way I got his books understanding chess endgames and middle games today, I found the books very useful. I'm looking forward to getting more books by john Nunn

If Krammnik can miss a mate in 1, anyone can. 

A book by Averbakh is probably what youre looking for.

http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Tactics-Advanced-Players-Averbakh/dp/4871875083#customerReviews

Thanks for the book recommendation.

Hi Aleks, I have the book by Nunn which is really really good and includes some very advanced and difficult combinations. Have fün!

Combination Art by Maxim Blokh

Test Your Chess IQ: Master Challenge by Livschitz

The most difficult and lengthy real game problems for solving, in books, have always been the "best" combinations in Chess Informants, and their Encyclopaedia of Chess Combinations. I recall one circa 2500 rated player commenting on how extraordinarily difficult many of them were.

Composed endgame studies usually have real-game-like positions (unlike composed problems) and often have long and difficult solutions with highly original, unusual, and unexpected ideas and tactics. Classic collections of composed endgame studies are "1234 Modern End-Game Studies" by M.A. Sutherland and Harold Lommer, "
1357 End-Game Studies" by Harold Lommer, and endgame study collections by Genrikh Kasparian, both of his own studies and his compilations of studies by other composers.

That said, the fact of the matter is that most chess games, even at "super-grandmaster" level are, in the end, decided by fairly gross errors. If you absolutely never missed a two or three mover that won material or mated, you would easily be at least a 2300 player even if your opening, strategic and endgame knowledge was that of the average class D to B club player. Just look at how "well" a good chess engine plays without an opening book or ending tablebase. No strategy at all, but no human can beat it, because it never misses a tactic, and almost always a fairly short one. Playing chess well requires extremely accurate and completely error-free short calculation of usually no more than 2-1/2 moves (5 ply). Really long calculations are rarely necessary, and then usually only in endgames with few pieces, allthough, in such cases, it is good to be actually capable of conducting a long and accurate calculation, rather than risk exchanging into an ending because it merely "looks winning" or sacrificing a piece because "there just has to be a mate there". Your subjective judgement may be right, but it just possibly might be wrong, and even if your'e right about the win, you're still going to have to find it.