Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player

✍ Scribed by Sam Palatnik, Lev Alburt, Roman Pelts

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Series: Comprehensive Chess Course Series) (Comprehensive Chess Course, Third Level
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you are a master or stronger, you might enjoy some of the world-class tactics featured in this book. I am rated 1936 and it is still above my level. I also don't like the organizaiton of the book, and prefer just diagrams like in Sharpen Your Tactics. For me this book was a waste of money.

For mere mortals, there are far better choices, like Sharpen Your Tactics, Chess Tactics for Juniors, The Complete Chess Workout, and Practical Chess Exercises (which I love, but it is more about all aspects of the game. It is also not a beginner's book. I recommend it for 1700+.)

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 4
Foreword......Page 7
Lesson 1......Page 11
The Importance of Making Threats......Page 13
FORCED PLAY......Page 17
Making Threats with Gain of Time......Page 19
Making an In-between Move......Page 21
Making a Surprise Move......Page 22
SACRIFICE......Page 25
COMBINATIONS......Page 27
Creating Combinations......Page 28
Decoy......Page 32
Deflection......Page 36
Obstruction (Blocking)......Page 39
Pinning......Page 43
Skewers (the “shish-kabob” tactic)......Page 50
Exercises......Page 53
Solutions......Page 59
Square Clearance......Page 61
Clearing a Line......Page 64
Interference......Page 71
Exercises......Page 76
Solutions......Page 82
Double Attack......Page 84
Discovered Attack......Page 85
Discovered Check......Page 88
Double Check......Page 94
X-Ray......Page 97
In-between Move......Page 99
In the Opening......Page 104
In the Middlegame......Page 105
In the Endgame......Page 106
Exercises......Page 107
Solutions......Page 113
Seizing a Square......Page 115
Breaking Down the Defense......Page 120
Removing the King’s Pawn Cover......Page 133
Exercises......Page 148
Solutions......Page 154
The Sacrifice on f7......Page 156
Sacrificing a Bishop at h7......Page 161
Lasker’s Combination......Page 173
The Sacrifice on g7......Page 181
Exercises......Page 188
Solutions......Page 194
The Back Rank......Page 196
The 7th Rank......Page 202
Overloading......Page 204
Far Advanced Pawn......Page 215
Exercises......Page 226
Solutions......Page 232
Stalemate......Page 234
Perpetual Check......Page 239
Pursuit......Page 244
Exercises......Page 247
Solutions......Page 253
Lesson 9......Page 255
Learning to Calculate Variations......Page 256
Avoiding Errors in Calculation......Page 264
Typical Psychological Errors......Page 266
Surprise Moves in the Middlegame......Page 277
Index......Page 285
Author Biographies......Page 298