Tactics Book?

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Rather than start a new thread I thought I'd just ask in this one.

I am looking for a book on advanced tactics, which one out of the three I give would you recommend? Or anything else?

1. Chess Tactics for advanced players - Averbach
2. Secrets of chess tactics - Dvoretsky
3. School of chess excellence (tactical play) - Dvoretsky

Are the two Dvoretsky books very different?

Thanks in advance, J.

Originally posted by jonrothwell
Rather than start a new thread I thought I'd just ask in this one.

I am looking for a book on advanced tactics, which one out of the three I give would you recommend? Or anything else?

1. Chess Tactics for advanced players - Averbach
2. Secrets of chess tactics - Dvoretsky
3. School of chess excellence (tactical play) - Dvoretsky

Are the two Dvoretsky books very different?

Thanks in advance, J.

I'm looking for something more advanced than - Understanding Chess Tactics, which i'm going through now and which is excellent.

Thanks, I'll check out the imagination one.

Streetfighting Chess by Andrew Burnett

call me crazy but Lein's

http://www.amazon.com/Sharpen-Your-Tactics-Anatoly-Lein/dp/1880673134/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256180129&sr=1-1

has had the bonus of sticking with me for years. 1k plus problems in a paperback and they get progressively tougher.

honestly skip openings for a bit, you can find enough basic stuff online. Fine's book is ok, but dated and if you have the money Watson has a pretty good 3 books set out now that covers things with plenty of verbal description.

http://streetfightingchess.com/

Honestly, well worth the money, and the time studying it.

I have the Averbach book. Very good book, though the edition that I have is difficult to read - small print, small diagrams, etc.. If there is a newer edition out that solved those issues, then I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. Another fine advanced tactics book is How to Calculate Chess Tactics by Valeri Beim.

Originally posted by dirtysniper
http://streetfightingchess.com/

Honestly, well worth the money, and the time studying it.

Hi

Here is my review of Street Fighting Chess

http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandlerarticle.php?ChandID=279

It's not a tactics traing manuel full of positions for you to solve.
(there some at the back of the book).
It's tactics in actions both on the board and your approach to the game
off the board.

Staying with the theme of this thread.
Really any book that has you studying and solving is good.

But if you want a recommendation then Chess School 3 is superb.

It's a book that will get by-passed at bookstalls because the cover
makes it look like a kids book.

http://shop.chesscafe.com/item.asp?PID=2209

School 3 is aimed at 2000+ players and as you go through the
sections they get tougher and tougher so you can really only do
2 or 3 of these things in a session.

Some of them are head hurting ball busters that make you wish
you had never turned the bloody page. Brilliant.

Thanks for the recommendations everyone, some good ideas there.

Got to say some good recommendations. But, I must say my favorite was forcing chess moves. Rating jumped immediately after going through that book.

Originally posted by HomerJSimpson
my system is quite old, and Nimzowitsch seems like he doesnt have very good command of the english language, hence it takes him 2 pages to say something that should have taken him 1 or two lines. Its an ok read, he teaches a very mechanical style of chess, ie, dont move a pawn more than 3 times in the first 8 moves, dont go pawn grabbing in the openin ...[text shortened]... down a better book than My System, was voted the best chess book of the year when it came out 🙂

Understanding Chess Tactics by Martin Weteschnik

John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book Gambit publications.

These I reckon are aimed at 1600+ players and I know you've been up in the 1900's and would
probably hang there all the time but for the heavy game load. Weteschniks book has more
instruction where Nunn's will stretch you with some tests and a clever system of grading the
difficulty and offering you a hint.

Originally posted by Mahout
[b]Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy

?

Maybe I should dust off my old copy and have another look. Last time I opened it I found it
almost completely incomprehensible. This is not to say there is anything wrong with the book,
just that it's aimed at higher rated players. Maybe now after reading so many of
Greenpawns posts, I'll have the necessary knowledge. It is highly regarded.[/b]