Think Like Ivanchuk is a celebration of a true chess genius. This book is a collection of Vasyl Ivanchuk's best games, a chess biography and a highly entertaining training manual all in one.

"The motif is the effect that a chess piece has towards another (own or opposing) piece, or square" so is the definition by the author in the introduction chapter.

According to Meszaros, motifs fall into two categories: basic or combinational. The elements of both groups can be simple or complex, depending on the number of their components.

Concepts like Potential Attack, Undefended piece or square, X-Ray, Blockade are explained with illustrative examples. 

This workbook offers over five hundred carefully selected exercises to accompany the book 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know.

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.

Do you like chess and want to become a better player without putting in hundreds of hours training? 

365 Steps to Tactical Mastery has a practical approach with a focus on tactics.

KSIĄŻKA DOSTĘPNA BĘDZIE NA POCZĄTKU WRZEŚNIA

Since its publication in 2018 The Woodpecker Method has been the go-to manual among chess players with a thirst for tactical improvement. The Woodpecker Method 2 is the long-awaited sequel, designed to skyrocket your positional decision-making skills

Zwischenzug! is the first-ever comprehensive guide to the chess tactic also known as the intermediate move, or intermezzo. This exciting manoeuvre can catch opponents off guard because it is against the expected run of play. You will learn how to spot Zwischenzugs, when to look out for them, and how to set them up in your games.

Wersja uaktualniona i rozszerzona. Wydanie 2024.

We’ve managed to keep the upgraded paperback edition at the pre-inflation price. On top of that, this modern classic is now available in hardcover as well.

Develops your combinative flair while highlighting the beauty and profundity of chess.

1000 Chess Problems will develop your combinative flair while highlighting the beauty and profundity of chess.

Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 1 is essentially a chess puzzle book, but not a typical one. It’s a multi-year effort by GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko and his world-renowned trainer IM Vladimir Grabinsky to introduce you to the world of ”unnatural“ tactical moves.

Presenting examples of extreme beauty, no matter where they come from be it online bullet or world-class grandmaster praxis this book will cure your ”selective blindness“ by destroying the false notion of chess principles being a set of rules, instead of helpful guidelines. Most chess games are decided by tactics, so solving tactical puzzles is the most effective path to improvement.

Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 2 concludes a multi-year effort by GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko and world-renowned trainer IM Vladimir Grabinsky to create the perfect chess puzzle books. This second volume builds upon the first, using games from the World Champions and their challengers. Most chess games are decided by tactics, so solving tactical puzzles is the most effective path to improvement.

This book also contains a special chapter with expert guidance on how to use chess engines. The engines might analyse precisely but they can also harm our chess understanding if followed blindly, so we must know when and how to use them.

900 Chess Opening Puzzles is a collection of 900 traps and, at the same time, 900 possibilities to make the right decision. In other words, each puzzle cosists of choosing a correct move in the opening phase of the game. This book discovers the secrets of traps in a variety of chess openings in an easy and pleasant way.

Georgy Lisitsin (1909-72) was a respected Soviet master, theoretician and writer. In 1958 he published a revised edition of his most ambitious work, entitled Strategy and Tactics of Chess, which became one of the most legendary manuals in the Soviet chess school, and no doubt one of the books that motivated the young Bobby Fischer to learn Russian.

Georgy Lisitsin (1909-72) was a respected Soviet master, theoretician and writer. In 1958 he published a revised edition of his most ambitious work, entitled Strategy and Tactics of Chess, which became one of the most legendary manuals in the Soviet chess school, and no doubt one of the books that motivated the young Bobby Fischer to learn Russian.

In this second and final volume of the Anti-Sicilian series, the author covers all alternatives to 2…Nc6.

The Moscow variation is the only critical alternative to 3.d4 that has caused any concerns for Black, and the author’s choices in this variation were mainly selected by their ability to create practical difficulties for the opponent. Against 3…Nd7, the author analyses two distinct options, either castling immediately or first playing 4.a4.

Informant’s Collection of Instructive Tactics and Studies

- 500 carefully selected puzzles

- 5 levels of difficulty

- 60 instructive, prizewinning studies

Study, practice and improve with our selection of tactical jewels!

- Compensation is a chess concept that we only fully understand when we enter the world of serious chess.

- The relative value of pieces is perhaps the most difficult chess concept of all to explain.

- It is one that every player must feel and believe in and can only be accepted with the help of our own practice, and when we feel it come together as though a part of us.

- Why so much talk about such or similar sacrifices? Quite simply because we are afraid! We have been taught, and practice shows and proves the clear fact, that the closer we get to the last part of the game, the ending, the more pronounced a material advantage becomes.

- If in the middlegame we can still hope for sudden turns, for the influence of other pieces, this is negligible in the endgame.

- Maybe less so with tactical sacrifices, where we immediately see what the sacrificer gets in return.

- How can we not accept the rook that the opponent offers us, when there is nothing concrete to see? One or two weaknesses perhaps, but they can be eliminated, and the material advantage and a secure victory in the endgame remains.

Zestaw 10 książek: 1400 Kombinacji matowych - Ryszard Czajkowski, Andrzej Nowicki 

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Niniejsza książka to unikalny zbiór 1400 diagramów z praktyki szachowej mistrzów i arcymistrzów z wielu krajów i różnych epok oraz własnych przykładów samych autorów.

Stopień trudności poszczególnych zadań jest na tyle zróżnicowany, by każdy szachista czerpał radość z ich rozwiązywania, niezależnie od swoich umiejętności. Tak więc w książce znajdziemy proste i bardziej skomplikowane przykłady taktyki szachowej, klasyczne końcówki, piękne kombinacje, które na zawsze przeszły do historii szachów, studia, etiudy i kompozycje szachowe oraz odzwierciedlenie zawartych w nich idei przeniesionych do praktyki turniejowej.

Czytelnik może poznać różnorodne sposoby matowania – od najprostszych jedno i dwuposunięciowych do mata w 262 (!!) posunięciach.

The Give and Take of Chess Tactics

Chess students love a Puzzle Rush. And solving tactics puzzles certainly helps you improve your pattern recognition and will help you find good moves in tournament games. But there is a downside to most tactics puzzles we always know who is supposed to win!

1,205 best tactical positions, grouped according to their topics. Intended for chess players with ELO 1600-2400. This chess exercise book is written by an experienced coach, International Grandmaster of ICCF. It contains more than 1400 exercises that are arranged very precisely after various combinational motifs.

The distinction between strategy and tactics is one of the first things any chess player learns about, but have you ever heard about statics and dynamics before? Did you know that nearly every critical decision you take in a game of chess is governed by the rules of the so-called static/dynamic balance? If not, for the sake of your own chess development, you might want learn more about it from this very book!

1400 Kombinacji matowych - Ryszard Czajkowski, Andrzej Nowicki 

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Niniejsza książka to unikalny zbiór 1400 diagramów z praktyki szachowej mistrzów i arcymistrzów z wielu krajów i różnych epok oraz własnych przykładów samych autorów.

Stopień trudności poszczególnych zadań jest na tyle zróżnicowany, by każdy szachista czerpał radość z ich rozwiązywania, niezależnie od swoich umiejętności. Tak więc w książce znajdziemy proste i bardziej skomplikowane przykłady taktyki szachowej, klasyczne końcówki, piękne kombinacje, które na zawsze przeszły do historii szachów, studia, etiudy i kompozycje szachowe oraz odzwierciedlenie zawartych w nich idei przeniesionych do praktyki turniejowej.

Czytelnik może poznać różnorodne sposoby matowania – od najprostszych jedno i dwuposunięciowych do mata w 262 (!!) posunięciach.

Podręcznik strategii i taktyki szachowej.

В последнее время лондонская система все чаще применяется на практике, и причины этого очевидны. Белые могут опровергнуть почти любой ответ противника на 1.d4 с помощью надежных и простых в освоении вариантов. В процессе у вас появится выбор между стратегическим подходом и более агрессивной тактической игрой, и при этом вам не придется изучать все тома по дебютной теории! Идеальный вариант для шахматистов, у которых не так много времени на тщательный анализ.

1200 CHESS COMBINATIONS

Решебник международного гроссмейстера и опытного тренера (в числе учеников которого А. Грищук) Максима Блоха содержит свыше 1200 комбинаций из практических партий и специально составленных примеров.

The only complete Encyclopaedia of Chess Problems ever written is available once again as a polished reprint of the original edition.

The life work of GMs Milan Velimirovic and Kari Valtonen is a must for any chess lover and enthusiast!

Learn from the legacy of one of the most talented players to ever grace the chess world.

All elements of the game explained in an easy-to-digest and highly entertaining fashion.

What separates the best chess players from the rest? What gives them the edge over their rivals? Chess legend Vladimir Kramnik believes it’s their fighting skills and the ability to continuously find ways to keep a game alive. Colin Crouch agrees, and is fascinated that the world’s strongest players seem almost unbeatable, even when play appears sharp and double-edged. In this book Crouch examines the tremendous fighting qualities of today’s top players. Analysing key games from 2012, Crouch demonstrates how they give nothing away to their opponents but are always alert to punish any slight errors, and how we can apply these lessons from top-level chess to help us in our own games.

What's the most effective book for your level or the most effective course to get? As a Grandmaster and chess coach, who left his cozy life and started a company with a mission to help chess lovers unlock their full potential, I'm very happy that in the chess world there are people like Vishnu and that you picked his book.

Вы держите в руках задачник, составленный по партиям Алирезы Фирузджи - ярчайшего мастера комбинационной игры с феноменальным тактическим дарованием. Здесь представлены одни из самых интересных шахматных позиций из партий выдающегося шахматиста. Задача - найти решение в ситуациях, с которыми в ходе партии сталкивался сам Фирузджа.

Учебник опытного тренера международного мастера Анастасии Геллер посвящен нападению на короля. Читатель научится ставить шахи и защищаться от них наилучшим образом, а также полностью освоит один из самых важных тактических элементов шахмат - мат в 1 ход!

There is nothing more satisfying than finishing a chess game with a checkmate. All essential mating patterns, some with intriguing names, are explained in full in this course. You will review every pattern. Master them. And test yourself with 1.000 exercises at all levels of difficulty.

1.d4 d5 (Tactical Puzzles)

DECISION TIME!

Winning 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 hundreds 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 find a move that avoids a certoin loss.

The study of the positions in this book will help you navigate your own openings with greater success to help you win more games and avoid unpleasant disasters.

INDIAN DEFENCES (Tactical Puzzles)

DECISION TIME!

Winning 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 hundreds 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 find a move that avoids a certoin loss.

The study of the positions in this book will help you navigate your own openings with greater success to help you win more games and avoid unpleasant disasters.

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An International Master’s instructive guide to essential tactical strategies and positions in chess.

This truly outstanding book, first published in Russian in the 1970s and regarded as a classic, contains everything you need to know about how to deliver checkmate.

Тренировать тактическое зрение и счет вариантов каждому шахматисту надо ежедневно и всю жизнь. Шахматы, по общему мнению, на 90% состоят из тактики, и, работая над ней, шахматист неизбежно повышает класс своей игры и результаты. К счастью, это увлекательно и доставляет удовольствие. Всё, что для этого нужно - специальная литература, и данная книга создана специально для этого.

Вы держите в руках задачник, составленный по партиям Алирезы Фирузджи - ярчайшего мастера комбинационной игры с феноменальным тактическим дарованием. Здесь представлены одни из самых интересных шахматных позиций из партий выдающегося шахматиста. Задача - найти решение в ситуациях, с которыми в ходе партии сталкивался сам Фирузджа.

Вы держите в руках задачник, составленный по партиям Алирезы Фирузджи - ярчайшего мастера комбинационной игры с феноменальным тактическим дарованием. Здесь представлены одни из самых интересных шахматных позиций из партий выдающегося шахматиста. Задача - найти решение в ситуациях, с которыми в ходе партии сталкивался сам Фирузджа.