Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening Workbook Series - 1. d4 d5 - Vol. 2

Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening Workbook Series - 1. d4 d5 - Vol. 2Winning fast is fun. Losing fast is definitely not fun. This book works as a companion volume to the original book. In this book, you will be given the task to decide how to continue in more than six hundred of puzzle positions, all taken from games that were decided in fifteen or fewer moves. Sometimes you need to find a winning move, other times you have to select the best move between several candidate moves, and yet other times, you will have to

The book shows the key elements and different themes

Mating Combinations program is the unique for two reasons:

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who explains why and how top players switched between 1

out of this group he has selected for the book the one hundred which he considers the most interesting and instructive for detailed analysis

but a fascinating account of this prominent revolutionary's early chess career and Soviet chess in the 1920s buttressed by fifty of his games from his entire career including his immortal sacrificial win over Capablanca (then reigning World Champion)

remembered as the Soviet who lost to Bobby Fischer in 1972

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Literature often ascribes the game’s origin to a man named Sissa

a particular question kept coming to mind… "What if each playing chess piece could "take on"

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Saidy arrived in mid-1962 to be a medical intern