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This book saves you years of hit-and-miss reading and sporadic improvement because it gathers together the crucial, game-winning knowledge in one easy-to-carry volume. Each position gives you an important piece of practical chess knowledge. This time-efficient approach leads to the deepest understanding of the game.
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Lev Alburt is an International Chess Grandmaster and a renowned chess instructor.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This pocket book is an excellent accompaniment to a chess tactics regime. It contains a perfectly balanced mixture of problems that are encountered in typical chess games. Positions might be tactically rich, strategical or endgame. I really appreciated this book because a) it was concise, b) it was no-nonsense and c) it was readable and approachable. I tend to judge a book on whether or not I learnt anything that I can remember longterm. This Lev Alburt book showed me how to obtain a draw with Rook and Knight, winning endgame technique, calculating in the opening, making strategical gains, stalemate and set me a whole host of tactical problems!
If you are daunted by some of the larger 'tactical volumes' then this lightweight pocket book should be ideal for you.
If you are daunted by some of the larger 'tactical volumes' then this lightweight pocket book should be ideal for you.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
This Book Has Carried Me a Long Way!
14 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback
Having spoken with many people about this book, it seems that this book can take you all the way to the doorstep of National Master level tactics. As a 1100-1400, I was able to get 33%-40% of the problems in this book right, allowing only one minute per problem. As a B class player, I was able to get 66% of the problems correct. Experts should be able to get 80% and at 2200 you will have out grown this book. I have carried this book around as a mental warm up before tourns, and I have found myself playing better because of the warm up.
I think Silman and Alburt are two of the best coaches and book writers for the layman. I recommend this book and Alburt's other books without qualification.
There are 4-6 problems which I do not like, but this is a small matter.
I have gone through many tactics problem anthologies and this ranks up there as one of the best. Just as suggested by the cover, you too can become a chess master and get the women!!! Just like Lev Alburt and myself.
I think Silman and Alburt are two of the best coaches and book writers for the layman. I recommend this book and Alburt's other books without qualification.
There are 4-6 problems which I do not like, but this is a small matter.
I have gone through many tactics problem anthologies and this ranks up there as one of the best. Just as suggested by the cover, you too can become a chess master and get the women!!! Just like Lev Alburt and myself.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Great idea. I hope it is true.
22 Aug 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
There are many chess concepts to learn. Some are used more often than others. Learning them is part of the battle, and not forgetting too many is the other battle. Lev says you should focus on remembering the concepts that will be needed the most, and learn the less common ones if you want to be stronger. This book claims to have the most common strategies needed to be a strong tournament player, distilled into 300 problems. He also gives fantastic advice about how you can make your own puzzles and rate their importance and organize them as you climb to new chess skill levels.
Sounds great. As for the delivery, I have not finished the book. I've only done 4 puzzles, and I must say they are very instructive. They are tactics combined with strategy, and he guesses what move I'd have picked, and says why my reasoning is wrong. Each puzzle is dense with instruction, and I've not seen any repeated ideas yet.
Sounds great. As for the delivery, I have not finished the book. I've only done 4 puzzles, and I must say they are very instructive. They are tactics combined with strategy, and he guesses what move I'd have picked, and says why my reasoning is wrong. Each puzzle is dense with instruction, and I've not seen any repeated ideas yet.
13 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Don't buy it
20 July 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have an earlier printing and as far as I can tell the content of this "3rd Revised Edition" is unchanged. The only thing I can find new is page 183 about Al Lawrence. So I wasted my money and now have two identical copies. I consider it unethical to call a new printing a revised edition.
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