www.chess.com/tactics :D cheaper than a book, more tactics, more enjoyable
i like "sharpen your tactics" - http://www.chess.com/eq/chess+books/sharpen-your-tactics2
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Jul 14, 2008
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Erik, I love tactics trainer. It has really sharpened my tactics - several times in my games I've felt that there is a "tactics trainer" solution, and then found it.
Is anybody looking at the cooks though? Some of the problems have mate which can be delivered several ways, and some of the other problems have finishing moves which are unnecessary (and impossible to guess).
MRNChess, what tactics books have you done before? And do you already know what the terms fork, skewer, discovery, x-ray, and zwichenzug mean?
yes I know all of those tactics besides xray
fork- attacking two peices at once
skewer- force a strong peice away to reveal an attack ona weaker peice
discover-An attack delivered by moving a peice out of the way
zwichenzug-inbetween move, i beleive
I need to pick up a tactics book and just want some reccomendations. Thanks!