Practical Chess Exercises: 600 Lessons from Tactics to Strategy
Manufacturer: Wheatmark
Average Rating: 4.5
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Product Description
Product Description
Raise your chess to the next level with this program of 600 instructive and challenging exercises covering all aspects of the game. This book will sharpen your tactical vision, deepen your positional understanding, and enrich your knowledge of theoretical positions. It will also strengthen your analytical skills, and instill a sound move selection process. Win more games and increase your enjoyment of chess!
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Customer Reviews
Exercise book - NOT just a puzzle book. Great for training.
Rating: 5 (2008-12-29)
This is an excellent book for training. What I like most is the completely randomness of the exercises. You don't have any clue except which side moves.
On the same page you may have an exercise where you need to find a simple fork, but the next one may require to find a positional pawn sacrifice just to gain an outpost to your knight, and the following one indentify a move to parry a threat, and so on.
Exercises about openings, middle game and endgame. From easy to hard. Tactics and strategy. All mixed up. Because of this feature you will need to really analyze each position. Just as a real game.
An the solution to the exercises are very well explained. The author does not give only the moves, but explains the concept behind each exercise. There is really a learning after reading each solution.
Kindle Review
Rating: 5 (2008-12-01)
This book works out well on the Kindle. A Kindle page shows one puzzle, and the next Kindle page shows the solution. It does not show six puzzles on one page and six solutions on one page like the paper edition. The diagrams are clear and easy to read at the default font size. I am very pleased with the Kindle edition of this book.
I also like the randomness of the puzzle types and difficulty levels. This makes you analyze a real chess position and not just look for the combination you "know" is there. I am 1510 USCF and am happy with the difficulty of the material - so far nothing too easy or so complicated that I can't understand the answer.
Why aren't those 600 positions available as PGN file?
Rating: 4 (2008-11-12)
Excellent book, deserves 5 stars at least. But why not to make these positions available in electronic format (PGN,EPD,ChessBase, whatever)? Would make training so much easier. For sure the author has run it through computer analysis so the file should exist anyway...
practical chess exercises
Rating: 5 (2008-09-13)
this is a great chess book for the kindle. love how the exercises seem random and there are no clues like a real game. and the solutions are revealed by turning the page. simple but clever. highly recommend. but skip the front matter. you can hyperlink to thesymbol keys from each exercise.
Best Chess exercise book availalbe!
Rating: 5 (2008-09-12)
The 600 exercises in Ray Cheng's "Practical Chess" let you approach learning much as you would a real game -- exercises are displayed on one page, and possible solutions are revealed on the next page.There are all kinds of problems, tactical and positional, and they're not labeled so it's more fun and more challenging than most chess book exercises. The Kindle version is awesome. A great find.