- ISBN13: 9781857445329
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Product Description
All top chess players agree that to keep your tactical muscles in shape it’s imperative to continue training, and the easiest and most fun way to do this is by performing tactical exercises. Even solving a few puzzles for ten minutes each day can be of utmost benefit for the aspiring player. But where can one find the required number of suitable puzzles to satisfy this demand?
Look no further than The Complete Chess Workout. In this book, tactics expert Richard Palliser presents the reader with a massive 1500 puzzles, all checked for accuracy by the latest computer engines. There is something for players of all levels here: many basic tactics – forks, pins, skewers and checkmates – to appeal to beginners and improvers, and a considerable number of brain-teasers that will tax even the strongest of players. Palliser has meticulously collected puzzles from practical play in recent years – a large percentage of the exercises here will be completely new to most readers. All the important tactical themes are covered, while there are special sections on opening traps and endgames. Work your way through this book, and your opponents will soon be on the receiving end of your increased tactical powers!
*A comprehensive training manual for chess tactics
*Ideal for all levels of player
*All puzzles checked by computer engines
Look no further than The Complete Chess Workout. In this book, tactics expert Richard Palliser presents the reader with a massive 1500 puzzles, all checked for accuracy by the latest computer engines. There is something for players of all levels here: many basic tactics – forks, pins, skewers and checkmates – to appeal to beginners and improvers, and a considerable number of brain-teasers that will tax even the strongest of players. Palliser has meticulously collected puzzles from practical play in recent years – a large percentage of the exercises here will be completely new to most readers. All the important tactical themes are covered, while there are special sections on opening traps and endgames. Work your way through this book, and your opponents will soon be on the receiving end of your increased tactical powers!
*A comprehensive training manual for chess tactics
*Ideal for all levels of player
*All puzzles checked by computer engines
all the puzzles. I got 879 correct(first move only). I don’t have an official rating. I’d estimate my rating at 1700. If you enjoy a challenge this book will give you one and eleven hundred ninety nine more.
I recommend solving as many of the puzzles as possible before checking the answers.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
This is an excellent puzzle book. It doesn’t tell you the theme of the puzzle so you have to figure it out for yourself. Which I think is great because in a real game your gonna have to figure it out yourself as well. Also most of the puzzles are from recent games and you will probably recognize alot of the names. Great buy!
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
It is a great book, my son enjoyed working on it. Normally, he will complain the chess books I handed him (such as I do not like the author, do not like the book, too many typos…), not this one.
This chess book is not that difficult but still quite challenging from time to time.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
Palliser’s collection of 1200 puzzles is a wonderful resource. It succeeds in its objective, which is a tool for keeping your mind trim and ready for tactical maneuvers.
Each puzzle gives a diagram taken from a real game at a potential turning point and asks you to make the best move. The gain could be minimal such as a pawn, up to a piece, or perhaps checkmate within a few moves. The puzzles are nicely sorted for different stages of the game, and vary in difficulty. Though not aimed at the grand master, people of varying capabilities will find this collection useful.
Though fairly compact, it’s a good length. With 1200 puzzles, it will take roughly a year to work through doing a few per day. By then you will have forgotten the solutions and you could go through it all over again.
On an educational note, the main question concerning this book is whether such training will make you a better player. Spending 15 minutes per day throwing free throws at a basketball ring won’t make you Michael Jordan. Having a thousand balls thrown at you in a practice net won’t turn you into Sachin Tendulkar. But it surely won’t hurt. And in my opinion, this book is a lot more fun and absorbing than any Sudoku puzzle book. At the very least, you will never again be bored while sitting on the train to work. At this level alone, it is worth the price of admission, yet I think doing these puzzles may genuinely offer something substantial in understanding tactical motifs.
Most of the puzzles are from recent years, with a few from the classic masters, and a few even from the 19th Century. For someone like me who is still an apprentice in the sport of chess, I wonder what is the significance that so many of the puzzles are taken from 2007. It makes you wonder whether chess tactics go out of date every few years, but I doubt this to be so.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
A skilled and prolific chess writer, Richard Palliser is also an International Master with numerous tournament successes and in 2006 became the Join British Rapidplay Champion. Clearly, he brings his many years of experience and expertise to bear in writing “The Complete Chess Workout”, a comprehensive training manual for chess tactics that will prove invaluable for aspiring chess players from the novice to the expert. Special note should be made that all of the featured 1200 chess puzzles designed to built chess playing skills have been checked by computer engines. Thoroughly ‘player friendly’, “The Complete Chess Workout is nicely organized into eight distinct chapters: Warming Up!; Attack!; Opening Tricks and Traps; Skill in the Endgame; Loose Pieces and Overloading; Fiendish Calculation; Test Yourself; and Solutions. A comprehensive course of chess instruction under one cover, “The Complete Chess Workout” truly lives up to its title and will prove to be a welcome addition to personal, academic, and community library chess instruction reference collections.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5