Winning Chess Tactics

by YasserSeirawan (Author), JeremySilman (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $16.33

  This volume teaches the fundamentals of chess strategy - the plan or plans that direct a player's moves, and builds on that foundation by teaching the specifics of tactics - the guard dog of strategy , as Seirawan puts it. Seirawan and Silman define tactics as manoeuvres that take advantage of short-term opportunities in a chess game. The book presents, with many examples, the manoeuvres that together constitute a well-stocked arsenal; double attacks, pins, skewers, deflections, decoys, rays and windmills. Also included are 200 diagrammed positions. Each chapter ends with helpful quiz examples, and the book concludes with a series of more advanced positions that test the reader's understanding of tactical themes and complex combinations. Lastly, the book offers Great Tacticians and Their Games - a section that analyzes the personality and play of some of the game's greatest figures. Yasser Seirawan has also written Play Winning Chess .

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.27

  Learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the world's top chess players.
  The essential guide to the use of tactics, the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush an opponent and change the course of a game in a single move. International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan shows chess players how to put the tactics of the world's chess legends to work for them. Choose from the double attack, the pin, the skewer, deflection, the decor, x-rays, windmills, and many more time-tested tactics.
  

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  Paperback
  2005

  $16.40

  Readers will learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the world's top chess players. Attack? Defend? Swap pieces? Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush opponents and quite possibly change the course of a game in a single move. Why should players only hope that opponents will blunder when International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan can show them how to put the tactics of the world's chess legends to work. Choose from the double attack, the pin, the skewer, deflection, the decor, x-rays, windmills, and many more time-tested tactics. Using classic board situations arranged in chapters by tactical themes, Seirawan teaches readers how to: Board positions from actual games played by history's great chess tacticians are provided throughout. Review tests for each topic let them track their improvement. In no time they will be playing better, with more confidence than they ever thought possible.