"A Guide to Chess Improvement" features the very best of Dan Heisman's multi-award winning chess column "Novice Nook", which has run for the past ten years at the popular website ChessCafe.com. The book is full of valuable instruction, insight and practical advice on a wide range of key subjects: ge[...]
Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about - and benefiting from - the recurring patterns of tactics. In chess, if you lose all your pieces you can't win And if you capture each of your opponent's pieces, winning should be easy. [...]
Chessplayers wishing to improve their performance typically seek to deepen their middlegame understanding or to increase their endgame knowledge. Often, however, the real key to improvement lies not in learning additional ideas and positions, but in developing a more effective thinking process at th[...]
Identify and Deal with Threats This book is written to address and underemphasized area of chess training and study, the identification of and reaction to threats. For beginning and intermediate-level players, the study of tactics is paramount. Almost all tactics books take the approach of providin[...]