Tactics Time: 1001 Chess Tactics from the Games of Everyday Chess Players

by Anthea Carson and Tim Brennan

Book Overview

Everyone knows that the way to improve at chess is to solve tactics puzzles. But why do tactics books make amateurs study grandmaster or master games? How useful is it to analyze games that are unreal for everyday chess players?

In the real world of beginning and casual players openings are dubious, positions are messy, material is uneven, and cheap traps and oversights are occurring constantly. Most amateur games are won by rather primitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9056914383
• ISBN13: 9789056914387
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: New in Chess
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.4"