Our list of some of the best Chess Tactics books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- 1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players: The Tactics Workbook that Also Explains All Key Concepts (2019)
- Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games (2013)
- Chess Tactics and Combinations Workbook: Winning the Battles Between the Pieces (2019)
- Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess – Everyman Chess) (2005)
- Chess Tactics for Champions: A step-by-step guide to using tactics and combinations the Polgar way (2006)
- Tactics Time!: 1001 Chess Tactics from the Games of Everyday Chess Players (2013)
- Daily Chess Tactics Training – Volume 1: 404 Puzzles to Improve Your Tactical Vision (2019)
- Sharpen Your Tactics: 1125 Brilliant Sacrifices, Combinations, and Studies (1996)
- The Chess Tactics Workbook (2000)
- Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors (1994)
- Improve Your Chess Tactics: 700 Practical Lessons & Exercises (2011)
1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players: The Tactics Workbook that Also Explains All Key Concepts (2019)
Chess is 99% tactics. This celebrated observation is not only true for beginners, but also for club players (Elo 1500 – 2000). If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training your combination skills. There are two types of books on tactics: those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain lots of exercises.
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games (2013)
Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book..
Chess Tactics and Combinations Workbook: Winning the Battles Between the Pieces (2019)
Chess Tactics and Combinations Workbook presents hundreds of tactical patterns and combinations from significant master and grandmaster games in this book in the Chess Detective® Workbook series. Learn the fundamentals of how to identify, execute, and defend against tactical themes to improve your game. Cover basic tactics in detail from pins, skewers, forks, and discoveries, to more advanced tactical motifs like removing the guard, clearance, and interference.
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess – Everyman Chess) (2005)
Readers will learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the world’s top chess players.Attack? Defend? Swap pieces? Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush opponents and quite possibly change the course of a game in a single move.
Chess Tactics for Champions: A step-by-step guide to using tactics and combinations the Polgar way (2006)
Susan Polgar became the first female Grandmaster at age 15—and it wasn’t luck that got her there. Her use of tactics, combinations, and strategy during her games gave her the critical advantage she needed against her opponents.
Tactics Time!: 1001 Chess Tactics from the Games of Everyday Chess Players (2013)
Everyone knows that the way to improve at chess is to solve tactics puzzles. But why do tactics books make amateurs study grandmaster or master games?
Daily Chess Tactics Training – Volume 1: 404 Puzzles to Improve Your Tactical Vision (2019)
Are you ready to seriously improve your game?It has been said that chess is 99% tactics but whether that is an accurate reflection is hard to tell. Nevertheless, it is important. But if you are like most players, you only discover the tactics after you come home and run through your game with a chess engine. So what to do?
Sharpen Your Tactics: 1125 Brilliant Sacrifices, Combinations, and Studies (1996)
SHARPEN YOUR TACTICS is a chess tactics training book and is for every class of chess player. The examples are rated by difficulty and the problems gradually become more difficult as you move through the book, leading you into the world of high-level chess tactics.This book will greatly improve the readers chess game.
The Chess Tactics Workbook (2000)
Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Albert E Woolum; 4th edition (2000) ISBN-10: 0965906701 ISBN-13: 978-0965906708 Package Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds #189,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?
Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors (1994)
This book is an easier version of Combination Challenge!, also by Lou Hays. It contains 535 one- two- and three-move combinations to solve and teaches a study method for learning to play combinative chess. This is the quickest and easiest way to improve your chess rapidly. #313,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #309 in Chess (Books) #1893 in Children’s Game Books (Books) Would you like to ?
Improve Your Chess Tactics: 700 Practical Lessons & Exercises (2011)
The best advice for chess players who want to improve quickly is: get better at tactics! Simply because the vast majority of amateur games is decided through tactics you will immediately start beating more opponents when you improve your tactical skills. Experienced Russian chess master Jakov Neishtadt has selected those examples that have the biggest instructional value for club players. In the first part of the book Neishstadt teaches a systematic course on the most important tactical themes.
Best Chess Tactics Books Everyone Should Read
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Chess Tactics for Champions : a Step-by-Step Guide to Using Tactics and Combinations the Polgar Way.
Author(s): Polgar, Susan; Truong, Paul
ID: 2404935, Publisher: Random House, Incorporated [distributor, Random House Information Group, Random House Puzzles & Games [Imprint], Year: Aril 2006, Size: 7 Mb, Format: djvu
Chess for Beginners: The Best Ultimate Guide to Quickly Learn Rules, Tactics, Strategies and Start Playing. Learn How to Beat Your Opponent In A Few Easy Moves from Queen’s Gambit to Checkmate
Author(s): Gary Carlsen
ID: 3355559, Publisher: , Year: 2022, Size: 4 Mb, Format: pdf
Chess fundamentals: A simple beginner’s guide on playing chess like a pro with easy-to-follow strategies, moves, and best opening tactics
Author(s): Sanchez, Josè
ID: 2893566, Publisher: , Year: 2021, Size: 5 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are truly chart-busters according to USA Today, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.