Winning chess tactics

A player with what rating should read this book?? Im about 1300 but my TACTICS rating is 1700, so should i buy this book??? or i should read the more advanced The Art of Attack in Chess by vukovic????

Not sure about rating range, but I'm pretty sure you won't regret it.

Besides covering all the common tactical themes, he also has chapters devoted to famous tacticians (Morphy, Marshall, Anderssen, Alekhine, Kasparov, etc) where he shows some of their games. And of course there are puzzles to solve, of varying difficulties. Some of the tactics you're probably familiar with and some of the puzzles might be easy, but there's still plenty of great content anyone can learn from.

You can tell from his writing that Seirawan really loves chess.

And, get The Art of Attack too, it's also great :)

Winning chess tactics is the right book for you. You'd learn some stuff from the art of attack in chess too but it is mostly pretty advanced, I'd save it for later.

I would recommend Susan's Polgar's "Chess Tactics for Champions" above Winning Chess Tactics. I hate to knock a book that may have been good when it first came out, but I read it recently and found it highly over-rated and disappointing. Why?

Not nearly enough examples, for one. You get a decent explanation on the tactical motif, but then only a few excercises to reinforce it - not enough; Polgar, by comparison, using either 25 or 50 (depending on the tactic) exercies per motif, and she explains them first as well.

As to the handful of games at the end of Winning Chess Tactics, I thought it filler and a waste of space that could be better put to use with more tactical exercises. A mere dozen or so games, which are well known and in many other books, add little content to a book that is supposed to be focused on Tactics.

I rate Polgar's book 5 starts, and Winning Chess Tactics 3 - the latter would be okay if bought used, as a supplement, but is not adequate as a standalone book.