Chess
Tactics 1
Tactics are critical to success in the middle game. This book is a puzzle book that instructs students in the key tactics used by the beginning player to advance the ability to think ahead, visualize possibilities, and weigh options. These tactics include Pins, Forks and Skewers, En Prise (free piece) captures and checkmating problems with all the pieces. Puzzles are presented incrementally from easy to challenging. The book’s finale is Bobby Fischer’s “Game of the Century”, an incredible game played by Fischer at age 13 in the US Chess Nationals vs. Donald Byrne, one of the top players of his time. You will learn to think multiple moves deep as you analyze Fischer’s famous game.