1001 Chess Exercises for Advanced Club Players: Spot Those Killer Moves an Stun Your Opponent

by Frank Erwich

Overview

For any advanced club player (Elo 1800 - 2300) one thing remains true: if you want to win more games, nothing works better than training your combination skills. After all, studying the endgame will not help you if you are defeated by a deadly tactic long before the ending is reached.

In this follow-up to his acclaimed 1001 Chess Exercise for Club Players, FIDE Master Frank Erwich teaches you how to reach the next level of identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, recognizing patterns of combinations, visualizing tricks and calculating effectively.

Erwich repeats the themes of his previous book, focusing on exercises in which the key move is less obvious. He also introduces new, more sophisticated tactical weapons. They are geared towards the reality of the advanced club player: it is not enough to spot simple combinations, at this level you must be able to resist your reflexes and look deeper. Being able to take a piece of your opponent, doesn’t mean you have to. If one of your pieces is attacked you should first research what happens if you don’t move it away. In variations that look forcing you will always search for that deadly Zwischenzug. Quiet moves in general should be your new best friends. In short: an advanced club player should expect the unexpected.

One of the celebrated elements of Erwich’s previous book, neglected in other books on tactics, is back: defence! You will also learn how to defend against tactics, as well as how to use tactical weapons when you are under heavy pressure. 1001 Chess Exercises for Advanced Club Players is a complete and structured course, and not just a collection of freewheeling puzzles. Erwich starts every chapter with an instructive explanation of the tactical concept and has carefully selected the most didactically productive exercises.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789056919719
Publisher:	Continental Sales, Inc.
Publication date:	11/27/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	36 MB
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About the Author

Frank Erwich is a FIDE Master and an experienced chess trainer from the Netherlands. He holds a Master’s degree in Psychology. In 2019 he published the bestselling 1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players.

Table of Contents

Explanation of symbols 6

Introduction 7

Chapter 1 Main tactics 9

Chapter 2 In-between moves 20

Chapter 3 Automatic moves 33

Chapter 4 Surprises and traps 50

Chapter 5 Diagonals, ranks and files 63

Chapter 6 The walking king 73

Chapter 7 Manoeuvres 82

Chapter 8 Special threats and quiet moves 89

Chapter 9 Calculation and move-order 103

Chapter 10 Defence 110

Chapter 11 Mix 124

Chapter 12 Solutions 135

Glossary 212