Chess is 99% tactics. A tactical pattern is all about immediate threats that produce immediate results. Learning the 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know will dramatically improve your performance.
This book is the long-awaited middlegame companion to 100 Endgames You Must Know, the all-time bestseller of all chess books published by New In Chess. In three hundred pages, experienced chess trainer Frank Erwich teaches you all the tactical patterns that
- occur most frequently - are easy to learn - Explain ideas that are useful in practical games
You will get a huge amount of clear, concise and easy-to-follow chess tactics instruction, ideal for every post-beginner, club player and candidate master who wants to win more games.
Frank Erwich is a FIDE Master and an experienced chess trainer from the Netherlands. He holds a Master’s degree in Psychology. Frank is a book editor for New In Chess and has published the best-sellers: 1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players and 1001 Chess Exercises for Advanced Club Players.
Content: 009 Introduction 015 Chapter 1 - Double attack 034 Chapter 2 - Discovered attacks and line clearance 087 Chapter 3 - Skewers and pins 124 Chapter 4 - Pinning bishop versus Queen + Knight battery 141 Chapter 5 - Elimination of the defence 174 Chapter 6 - Trapping pieces 217 Chapter 7 - Promotion 247 Chapter 8 - Drawing weapons 268 Chapter 9 - Defensive weapons 291 Chapter 10 - Queen manoeuvres and the weak f2/f7-point 310 Chapter 11 - Attacking weapons 334 Chapter 12 - Pattern combinations 341 Index of names 347 Explanation of symbols
