Product Description

A follow-up to the bestselling "Improve Your Chess in 7 Days", this essential chess instructor is perfect for players who are desperate to brush up on their tactics but don't have time to devote to long hours of study. Handily arranged day by day, it is full of easy-to-follow advice on developing nifty tricks that will confound your opponent and help you win the game. It includes all the basic tactical skills such as pins, decoys, deflections, double attacks etc, then delves deeper, showing you how to harness them at various points of the game. It also contains a sprinkling of chess cartoons to keep you smiling as you read.Day 1: So You Want to Improve Your Tactics? Day 2: Understanding Tactics. Day 3: Develop Your Creativity. Day 4: Tactics in the Opening Day. Day 5: Tactics in the Middlegame. Day 6: Tactics in the Endgame. Day 7: Blunders and Brilliancies.Packed with tips and tricks, this book's clear, no-nonsense style makes it the ideal companion for sharpening your tactics - quickly. Arranged in handy day-by-day format, this book will give a valuable boost to your tactical skills. Clear, no-nonsense style makes it easy and accessible to all chess players. Author is a well-known chess trainer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #369159 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
Australian chess champion and Player of the Year for 2004, Gary Lane is a prolific and popular chess author. He has written over a dozen titles, including Find the Winning Move (ISBN 0713488719), Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings: Black (0173489502) and Improve Your Chess in 7 Days (9780713490503). He lives in Australia.

Customer Reviews

Sharpen your chess tactics in 7 days
As always with Gary Lanes' books, entertaining and perceptive. I am enjoying, and learning. His examples are good, and his comments enlightening.

Chess Tactics
Although the book has many good points the recipient did struggle when trying to follow the game scenarios.
Perhaps I should have bought a more simple and straightforward book. The point being to guage the experience of the recipient before purchase.

What Level is This aimed at?
There was some interesting advice and trivia here, and I read the 7 chapters in 7 days as the title suggested. But the level was mixed up there is a very basic glossary at the back and yet some advanced analysis on the Worrall attack.

It was a light entertaining book but to be honest there are some really top class chess books around now so I cannot justify a 5 star rating for this.