Product Description

This comprehensive book describes and analyses the intriguing array of tactics available to every chess player. With the help of progressively more difficult exercises and problems, Paul Littlewood shows the reader how to deploy a variety of tactics for attack and how to defend against each type of tactic successfully. Armed with this guide, players of all abilities, from the beginner to the experienced player, will find that they can significantly raise the level of their game.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #578847 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

About the Author
Paul Littlewood was British champion in 1981 and is an International Master. He has represented his country on many occasions and is well-known for his tactical play. He lives in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

Customer Reviews

Excellent tactics primer!
Have you learned the piece movement and rules of the game?Or maybe you've been playing for some time already but your tactics are sloppy?This book will help you!Useful for players up to +-1700 ELO.

The content: Fifteen chapters deal with every tactical theme available to the chessplayer.The themes are well explained and illustrated by examples,mostly,from actual games,each chapter ends with 10 exercises also mostly taken from actual games.The last chapter consists of 20 exercises with the only clue that there is a tactic.Algebraic notation.

Great book,I enjoyed it a lot.