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I am presently trying to get my hands on some tactics books. I understand that CT ART 3.0 is highly recommended, but I want something handy, instead of staring at the computer.

Anyone has any good book to recommend for such tactical exercises ?

Thanks a lot.

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Originally posted by whitedisc
I am presently trying to get my hands on some tactics books. I understand that CT ART 3.0 is highly recommended, but I want something handy, instead of staring at the computer.

Anyone has any good book to recommend for such tactical exercises ?

Thanks a lot.
Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player by Palatnik

Inner Game of Chess by Soltis

and the very difficult, fantastic attacking bible: Art of Attack in Chess by some Russian like Vukovic (sp?)

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I don't know about books, but this site has a lot of puzzles:
http://www.chessproblems.net/
Have fun!

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Originally posted by Varg
I don't know about books, but this site has a lot of puzzles:
http://www.chessproblems.net/
Have fun!
Cool site, do you have more of these?

Olav

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Originally posted by LivingLegend
Cool site, do you have more of these?

Olav
I think that is the best I found, but there are also:
http://thinks.com/chess/
http://www.forthnet.gr/chess/
These are the only ones I have bookmarked, but I have seen others.

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Originally posted by whitedisc
I am presently trying to get my hands on some tactics books. I understand that CT ART 3.0 is highly recommended, but I want something handy, instead of staring at the computer.

Anyone has any good book to recommend for such tactical exercises ?

Thanks a lot.
[b]I have found Weapons Of Chess by Bruce Pandolfini extremely helpful.

🙂

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1001 Brilliant ways to checkmate by Fred Reinfeld.

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Originally posted by SirLoseALot
1001 Brilliant ways to checkmate by Fred Reinfeld.
I've just received a book from my dad🙂 It's called 'Chess' and it's written by Polgar. (the father, not the chick)

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Originally posted by LivingLegend
I've just received a book from my dad🙂 It's called 'Chess' and it's written by Polgar. (the father, not the chick)

Olav
Yeah!The real big black book.That's a great work!I have 2 books by polgar(the father): chess endgames and chess middlegames.They are the same as the one you have.Different topics,of course😉

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One can try Chessbase's Renko's Intensive tactics training course

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Hi there whitedisc !

I can recommend three books:

On Tactics:

1."Winning Chess Tactics" by Yasser Seirawan and Jeremy Silman.
ISBN 1 85744 333 0.
2."Chess Tactics For Advanced Players" by Yuri Averbakh.
"Schachtaktik für Fortgeschrittene" ( same book ,same writer but
in German). I'ts not available any more in the regular chess book
shop , but if you can lay your hands on this one (second hand)
don't hesitate : buy that book !

On the middle game:

1."Art of Attack in Chess" by Vladimir Vukovic.(former Republic of
Yugoslavia) ISBN 1-85744-400-0.
If you want to learn how to attack,this is the book you've been
looking for !

Chessgreetings from IvanH.

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Originally posted by whitedisc
I am presently trying to get my hands on some tactics books. I understand that CT ART 3.0 is highly recommended, but I want something handy, instead of staring at the computer.

Anyone has any good book to recommend for such tactical exercises ?

Thanks a lot.
Another tactics training book is John Emms' 'The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book'. Was strongly recommended to me and when exchanging 2-3 mails with Jeremy Silman, he approved of it by all means.
There are 1000 tactical positions to solve!

I read above about ChessBase's 'Intensive Course Tactics'. I have it and it's quite recommendable. However, one better starts with CB's 'School of Elementary Tactics (martin Weteschnik). Daniel King's 'Check and mate' is also great (ChessBase).
CB's bi-monthly ChessBase Magazine is (at least for me) a must-have. Tournaments, endgame, tactics, strategy training, thousands of games, tournaments, multimedia (lots of interviews with GMs), etc.

Cheerio!

Jan

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I'd put in a good word for Chris Ward's "It's Your Move" books - I have one that uses positions from master games, and I've seen he also has a more basic one.

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