Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player (Comprehensive Chess Course Series) (Comprehensive Chess Course, Third Level)

Author - Lev Alburt ... [Goo?] [Posters]
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This Paperback Book item from W. W. Norton & Company was reviewed on 13-Sep-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player (Comprehensive Chess Course Series) (Comprehensive Chess Course, Third Level) by W. W. Norton & Company. You can´t get much better than this. It´s a gem of a book. But, I recommend other tactics manuals, too. Such as a Gary Lane book with puzzles. Of course, GM Lev Alburt recommends that very thing, too. Tactical themes is what you are learning.¤

2) Paperback Book Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player (Comprehensive Chess Course Series) (Comprehensive Chess Course, Third Level) by W. W. Norton & Company. This is the best tactics book I have. I´ve written all over it because it´s constantly stirring up exciting ideas.

There are 9 "Lessons" (chapters). The Lessons don´t just cover one tactical motif after the other but are grouped logically into very useful themes. Lesson One provides the best definition of tactical play I´ve ever seen, and fully explores these ideas: threats, forcing variations, gain of time, in-between moves, positional sacrifices, intuitive sacrifices, and creating combinations by 1) recognizing motifs, 2) employing tactical ideas, and 3) following through with concrete technique.

Lesson Two, Three, and Four cover all of your basic tactics. The definitions are short but sweet. The examples may require your own independent thinking, but there´s enough accompanying text to guide you and to make the point of each example abundantly clear.

Lesson Five and Six are wonderfully instructive on tactics involved in the attack on the King. This is "Art of the Attack" in a condensed, fun and highly effective form. Lesson Five focuses on the vulnerable King and removing the King´s defenses, while Six focuses on the essential sacrifices at f7, g7, and h7, as well as Lasker´s Combination.

Seven focuses on tactics involving the strategic concepts of the back rank, 7th rank, and far advanced pawn, and Eight is all about tactical techniques for pulling out a draw (I didn´t think that topic COULD be interesting).

Finally, Lesson Nine is a fantastically insightful and accessible lesson on how to calculate (the chess improver´s holy grail), which alone is worth the price of the book.

This book may not be as complex as variation-intensive books, but nor is it simplistic, and it hits with a high impact per chapter.¤

3) Paperback Book Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player (Comprehensive Chess Course Series) (Comprehensive Chess Course, Third Level) by W. W. Norton & Company. Lots of ideas that you can benefit from. Not as useful for teaching as the previous book in the series. Good for independent study.¤

4) Paperback Book Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player (Comprehensive Chess Course Series) (Comprehensive Chess Course, Third Level) by W. W. Norton & Company. After anxiously waiting for this book, I began to study it, and was very disappointed. Chess Tactics for the Tournament player is a disappointing book.

The themes presented in the chapters are in no logical order! They are just randomly slapped there for you to study.

As another reviewer mentioned, the commentary in this book is very sparse. Sometimes they give examples to easy for the intended audiences (1 or 2 move combinations) and then give very difficult ones right after it (6 or 7 move combinations).

Thye book crams many themes, sometimes 3 or 4, in one chapter. At the end of the chapter, they only give 12 excercises! How are you suppose to learn this stuff if they give an average of 3 excercises per theme?!

Overall, I was disappointed.

I own Just the Facts!, the 7th volume in this series, which is very good. If only the authors mirrored the style in that book with this one.

I ordered the king in Jeopardy, the 4th volume of this course. Hopefully it will be better than this one.¤

5) Paperback Book Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player (Comprehensive Chess Course Series) (Comprehensive Chess Course, Third Level) by W. W. Norton & Company. Books on chess tactics and chess traps are very useful for improving your game. There are a lot of books on tactics and a small number on chess traps (openings tactics). When comparing CHESS TACTICS FOR THE TOURNAMENT PLAYER to my other book "Learn Chess Tactics" and "Winning Chess Traps" I can say this book is jumpy and often not very clear. It goes from a simple position to work on using one pattern, then jumps to a totally unrelated type of pattern that is very difficult. It is like getting a wild card every time. It still gets three stars because there are some good problems to work on that are helpful to improving your game.¤

6) Paperback Book Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player (Comprehensive Chess Course Series) (Comprehensive Chess Course, Third Level) by W. W. Norton & Company. Third in Grandmaster Lev Alburt´s Comprehensive Chess Course series. The first two volumes used only materials that worked well in the former U.S.S.R. This book contains hundreds of strikingly beautiful positions arranged by difficulty and designed to sharpen the tactical recognition and vision of experienced players anywhere. Nothing is left to chance.¤

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