Wasn't that co-authored by Chernev? It's just an ages old tactics book. It was sorta special back then, but there are so many others out there now, you won't need this. The "see three moves ahead" part is more or less just a sales ploy btw. There's no special visualization training included.
Has anybody ever read this book?
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It's a great book for learning tactics, I used to own it but got frustrated with the descriptive notation.
Bubatz wrote:
Wasn't that co-authored by Cheney? It's just an ages old tactics book. It was sorta special back then, but there are so many others out there now, you won't need this. The "see three moves ahead" part is more or less just a sales ploy Btu. There's no special visualization training included.
Every one of the reviewers gave it five stars. That rarely happens. Have you actually read it?
woodshover wrote:
Bubatz wrote:
Wasn't that co-authored by Cheney? It's just an ages old tactics book. It was sorta special back then, but there are so many others out there now, you won't need this. The "see three moves ahead" part is more or less just a sales ploy Btu. There's no special visualization training included.
Every one of the reviewers gave it five stars. That rarely happens. Have you actually read it?
Yeah, about 25 years ago, we had it in the small library of the local chess club in the town where I lived back then. I remember it had several diagrams for each problem. Still it was just a tactics book with chapters about forks, skewers, back rank mates etc. - you know the deal.
I forgot to add, yes it was co-written by Chernev. I wonder why it gets all great reviews then.
woodshover wrote:
I forgot to add, yes it was co-written by Chernev. I wonder why it gets all great reviews then.
I had no intention to make it look bad! I was just saying that today we have lots of other good books regarding these topics so that it's not really necessary to search high and low for this out-of-print title.
chessoholicalien wrote:
It's a great book for learning tactics, I used to own it but got frustrated with the descriptive notation.
I thought about that too.
pfren wrote:
Chernev's book was good some forty years ago, but then came the flood... including Yakov Neistadt's book "Test your tactical ability" which is richer, and better overall.
Sigh.
IMO, tactics exercizes are best done with software anyway.
Nope, I try to stay away from Reinfeld, Horowitz, Schiller and Pandolfini. Bad for your chess education (with some few exceptions).
I do TT, and Chess Mentor. I guess that's all I'll do then.
There is a difference, though, between some exercizes and others.
You might need a slew of 2 and 3 movers that are all about basic tactical motif repetition. Do a million and then repeat.
That's a different prescription from postitions that require a longer and harder calculation.
I'm not sure exactly what you get on site here and how it can be customized, so I don't know if you can get what's best for you.
I found that book at a used book sale at a local public library and it's my favorite chess book so far. I was put off a little by the older notation, but once you got past that I found it to be a very helpful book with the examples of each motif that get incresingly more challenging and I was able to test myself before seeing the answer becasue of the way the problems were laid out.
goldendog wrote:
There is a difference, though, between some exercizes and others.
You might need a slew of 2 and 3 movers that are all about basic tactical motif repetition. Do a million and then repeat.
That's a different prescription from postitions that require a longer and harder calculation.
I'm not sure exactly what you get on site here and how it can be customized, so I don't know if you can get what's best for you.
I just do Tactics trainer, and Chess Mentor.
Huskie99 wrote:
I found that book at a used book sale at a local public library and it's my favorite chess book so far. I was put off a little by the older notation, but once you got past that I found it to be a very helpful book with the examples of each motif that get incresingly more challenging and I was able to test myself before seeing the answer becasue of the way the problems were laid out.
All the reviewers said that as well.
woodshover wrote:
I just do Tactics trainer, and Chess Mentor.
Ever considered tactics software?
Chess Mentor is pretty lame IMHO since it is not based on an underlieing chess engine.
goldendog wrote:
woodshover wrote:
I just do Tactics trainer, and Chess Mentor.
Ever considered tactics software?
Yeah, but my computer's old, and slow, and I don't know what would be compatible.
Winning Chess: How to see Three Moves Ahead by Reinfeld. It's out of print, but still available. It seems to get nothing but rave reviews. Couldn't find a single bad one.