By the former coach of Garry Kasparov and the Polgar Sisters

A mastery of tactics is essential to a competitive chess player, and the original Advanced Chess Tactics became an instant classic in this field.
"This book is absolutely superb. For serious players... this volume will provide a wonderful breadth of study material and act as a workbook to advance your skills and understanding of this important topic..." was Carsten Hansen´s comment when awarding the book 6/6 stars.

Tactics according to Smyslov

Recently many great puzzle books have been published, but this book is a bit different from the others. The authors have used a unique, and at the same time simple, model for classification of tactical elements. They tried to look at this most important feature of chess through the eyes of a great champion, Vassily Smyslov.

First the Idea and then the Move“

First the idea and then the move!” Miguel Najdorf used to say in his habitually enthusiastic fashion; that statement is the perfect summary of planning in chess.

Planning is of crucial importance in chess and yet this is an area that has not been well discussed or explained to ambitious players who wish to improve. A very well known saying in chess is “Better a bad plan than no plan at all”. Playing without a plan – effectively staggering from one move to the next – is a recipe for disaster. It is essential to have some kind of idea of what you are trying to achieve and how to go about it.

Wahrscheinlich möchtest du deine Spielstärke verbessern oder, falls du nicht aktiv im Verein spielst, zumindest etwas mehr vom Schachspiel verstehen lernen. Das ist ein begreiflicher Wunsch, dessen Erfüllung jedoch leider mit sehr viel Arbeit und Aufwand verbunden ist, denn das Wissen über das Schachspiel hat mittlerweile die Dimensionen einer Wissenschaft angenommen.

Wahrscheinlich möchtest du deine Spielstärke verbessern oder, falls du nicht aktiv im Verein spielst, zumindest etwas mehr vom Schachspiel verstehen lernen. Das ist ein begreiflicher Wunsch, dessen Erfüllung jedoch leider mit sehr viel Arbeit und Aufwand verbunden ist, denn das Wissen über das Schachspiel hat mittlerweile die Dimensionen einer Wissenschaft angenommen.

Solving studies is well established as an effective method of chess improvement. In Practical Chess Beauty one of the world’s greatest study composers, Yochanan Afek, shares his finest creations.

A complete course for club and tournament players

Chess is 99% tactics. This celebrated observation is not only true for beginners, but also for club players (Elo 1500 – 2000). If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training your combination skills.

There are two types of books on tactics: those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain lots of exercises. FIDE Master Frank Erwich has done both: he explains all the key tactical ideas AND provides an enormous amount of exercises for each different theme.

Der bekannte Schachautor und Taktikspezialist Tim Martin führt den Leser nach einem Rückblick ins Jahr 1913 durch das Geschehen des Schachjahres 2013.

Dieses war besonders angefüllt mit hochkarätigen Ereignissen:
Kandidatenturnier zur Weltmeisterschaft in London; Schach-Weltmeisterschaft der Frauen und internationale Top-Turniere, in denen geniale Meister um die Weltspitze kämpften.

Der Autor stellt die besten Kombinationen aus diesen Ereignissen ausführlich kommentiert vor und präsentiert dem Leser in den Rubriken:
"Bundesliga & andere Mannschaftskämpfe aus nah und fern";
"Schach in Deutschland";
"Open – Turniere";
"Schach international";
"Jugendschach"  und
"Seniorenschach"
ausgewählte Kombinationen zum Lösen, Lernen und Genießen.

This book consists of 13 chapters with over 300 puzzles in total. All puzzles are taken from real games of 2016 with one exception. The two chapters dedicated to players feature examples from their whole career.

Every chapter has its own introduction and sometimes a typical position as an appetizer. The level of difficulty increases within the chapters but not strictly from chapter to chapter.

Experts agree that regularly solving tactical exercises is a vital component of chess training. However, it's also widely acknowledged that there is one drawback of traditional chess puzzles - students know for sure that there is a genuine tactic in the position waiting to be found, whereas during a real game there is no such guarantee!

Das Hauptziel dieses Buches ist es, Schachanfängern und bereits fortgeschrittenen Spielern Grundlagen zu vermitteln, mit denen sie sich in den verschiedenen Opfer-Kombinationen zurechtfinden können. In der Folge wird sich der Leser mit mehreren hundert einfachen taktischen Opfern befassen.

1,111 Two-, Three- & Four-move Mates

Improve Your Checkmate Power!

This second volume in the Mastering Mate series provides readers with a serious challenge - 1,111 checkmates in two, three, four and more moves. By solving these problems, you will develop proficiency in all of the major checkmating patterns.

There is much more here than the simple presentation of positions to solve. Mastering Mates 2 includes a full range of checkmates from real-life middlegames and endgames.

Convekta CD-Box 2009. Deutsch Englisch Spanisch

Martin Weteschnik

Fritztrainer-Taktik DVD-Box 2009, deutsch.