Chessboard Combat - Joel Benjamin Kartoniert (TB)

Chess students love a Puzzle Rush. And solving tactics puzzles certainly helps you improve your pattern recognition and will help you find good moves in tournament games. But there is a downside to most tactics puzzles ? we always know who is supposed to win! Chess in real life is different not just because no one taps us on the shoulder and tells us to look for a tactic. Sometimes tactics work and sometimes they don't. Sometimes your opponent has a few tricks up their sleeve too. This book shows the reality of chess tactics. It explores a chess player's challenges over the board: attack d efense and counterattack! It exposes the actual give-and-take nature of chess tactics. American grandmaster Joel Benjamin a three-time U.S. Champion was inspired by the 20th-century classic Chess Traps Pitfalls and Swindles by legendary chess authors Fred Reinfeld and Israel Albert Horowitz. With modern examples Benjamin arouses the same spirit of fun and enjoyment. With a generous amount of puzzles in quiz form this manual will help chess students sharpen their tactical skills and be ready to strike - or counterstrike.