Chess

Tactical Thinking

ntroduce the basic tactical concepts with an interactive book designed to get players to recognize strategic and tactical opportunities. From pins to forks and skewers, undermining to overworking, discovering to trapping, basic tactical thinking is clearly defined and demonstrated via interactive puzzles. Simple text explanations and minimal reliance on chess notation make it a perfect learning tool for early students. Over 300 one-step puzzles cement basic knowledge via practice around important themes.

Endgame Thinking

It may all come down to this, and here's where beginners have the most trouble. A course on tactics at the end of the game, where clear thinking and careful play are of the utmost importance as players seek to preserve an advantage or overcome a deficit. Learn the tactics of pawn promotion and the rules that let you create a winning position - or prevent your opponent from gaining one! Square of the Pawn, Key Squares, Key Positions, Outflanking, Triangulation, Blocked Pawns, Rook Endings, and Shouldering are just some of the many critical endgame topics covered through in-depth lessons and interactive exercises. This is a thorough and fascinating book, for player's who have mastered the basics of Volumes 1 and 2. Recommended for fourth grade and up.

More tactical thinking

Internationally acclaimed player, coach and teacher Grandmaster Miron Sher joins David MacEnulty as coauthor of our second volume on Tactics and Strategy. Here we pick up where Volume 1, Tactical Thinking©, left off, as we examine the use of all the important chess tactics in much more complex positions. More Tactical Thinking© aims at intermediate players, as we show them how to launch attacks over several moves and gain material or positional advantage via the use of various tactical ploys. Over 300 puzzles with solutions in two or more moves, this is for intermediate level scholastic players.

More Checkmate Thinking

Internationally acclaimed player, coach and teacher Grandmaster Miron Sher joins David MacEnulty as coauthor of our second volume on Checkmate strategy. This picks up where Volume 2, Checkmate Thinking, left off. Using the same techniques of checkmate pattern recognition and attacks organized by piece combinations, players learn to recognize and execute their checkmate opportunities in more difficult situations. Over 300 mate in two, three or more move positions are used to teach intermediate players how to create, launch and execute checkmate attacks.