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Lined up Pieces, Pins, Skewers and the like: to recognize the patterns and the underlying technique.
Skewers and pins! why should I need a book about that? anybody knows what we are talking about. True, but when was it the last time when you fell into a murderous skewer? last tournament maybe?
It is not easy for beginners to learn how to play chess and improve their game. Instead of learning mainly through practice (which could take years) and the study of games of Masters (difficult to understand and easily forgotten), this book presents a survey of a single category of tactics concerning lined up pieces: pins and skewers.
What you need to know before reading this book:
* How to use algebraic Chess Notation
* A visualization of at least 6 plies without a board
What you will learn in this book:
* How to use pins
* How to unpin
What you will NOT get, and why:
* Capablanca: nobody can learn to play well merely from the study of a book, it can only serve as a guide, and the rest must be done by the teacher
It is a common opinion that strong players see a position divided into elementary groups (chunks), each having exact and known characteristics, due to the huge number of games they played, analyzed and stored in their deep memory, immediately recognizing winning patterns
This book includes examples of pins and skewers from real games, and links to follow through the games and download the PGN, to let you then analyze them with your Chess Program.
They are located on my web site , with English comments. Appearance is simple and neat, diagrams start at the appropriate move.
Better experience with Kindle Fire or PC. An Internet connection is needed, WiFi or other.
You will not find here thousands of puzzles, many books are available for this, and many internet sites as well.
Here you will be presented with the essential information to be able to recognize the pattern and the underlying technique.
When out from the Metropolitan Museum, after a visit during the whole day, people just remember a couple of masterpieces that struck their imagination: what do you remember after going through hundreds of tactics? here you'll find a choice of the basic pins and skewers, to help recognize the most common. Essential information.
According to Martin Weteschnik solving tactical puzzles without fully understanding the underlying mechanisms is not the most efficient way to learn. Do not exercise what you do not understand.
Novice players are the target of this book, class C and below, up to 1500 USCF Elo rating. I am trying to follow Weteschnik advice, by identifying patterns you should aim to, and understand them.
Going periodically through these patterns will help you not to lose precious points and even to gain them, and your thinking time will be reduced. If only one of these patterns was unknown to you or you had doubts, your learning time will not be wasted.
If you knew them all instead and never fell into them, great, do tournaments and enjoy Evelyne Nicod's cat illustrations
Enjoy the reading
Rodolfo Pardi, FSI (Italian Chess Federation) instructor and arbiter
Notice:
Italian is my native language and I live in Italy. Some minor language errors might still be here in this translation, for which I apologize. Click to look inside to verify that you will understand, and to preview the usual 10% made available by Amazon.
It is not easy for beginners to learn how to play chess and improve their game. Instead of learning mainly through practice (which could take years) and the study of games of Masters (difficult to understand and easily forgotten), this book presents a survey of a single category of tactics concerning lined up pieces: pins and skewers.
What you need to know before reading this book:
* How to use algebraic Chess Notation
* A visualization of at least 6 plies without a board
What you will learn in this book:
* How to use pins
* How to unpin
What you will NOT get, and why:
* Capablanca: nobody can learn to play well merely from the study of a book, it can only serve as a guide, and the rest must be done by the teacher
It is a common opinion that strong players see a position divided into elementary groups (chunks), each having exact and known characteristics, due to the huge number of games they played, analyzed and stored in their deep memory, immediately recognizing winning patterns
This book includes examples of pins and skewers from real games, and links to follow through the games and download the PGN, to let you then analyze them with your Chess Program.
They are located on my web site , with English comments. Appearance is simple and neat, diagrams start at the appropriate move.
Better experience with Kindle Fire or PC. An Internet connection is needed, WiFi or other.
You will not find here thousands of puzzles, many books are available for this, and many internet sites as well.
Here you will be presented with the essential information to be able to recognize the pattern and the underlying technique.
When out from the Metropolitan Museum, after a visit during the whole day, people just remember a couple of masterpieces that struck their imagination: what do you remember after going through hundreds of tactics? here you'll find a choice of the basic pins and skewers, to help recognize the most common. Essential information.
According to Martin Weteschnik solving tactical puzzles without fully understanding the underlying mechanisms is not the most efficient way to learn. Do not exercise what you do not understand.
Novice players are the target of this book, class C and below, up to 1500 USCF Elo rating. I am trying to follow Weteschnik advice, by identifying patterns you should aim to, and understand them.
Going periodically through these patterns will help you not to lose precious points and even to gain them, and your thinking time will be reduced. If only one of these patterns was unknown to you or you had doubts, your learning time will not be wasted.
If you knew them all instead and never fell into them, great, do tournaments and enjoy Evelyne Nicod's cat illustrations
Enjoy the reading
Rodolfo Pardi, FSI (Italian Chess Federation) instructor and arbiter
Notice:
Italian is my native language and I live in Italy. Some minor language errors might still be here in this translation, for which I apologize. Click to look inside to verify that you will understand, and to preview the usual 10% made available by Amazon.
137 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 2, 2014
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About the author
Rodolfo Pardi
72 books3 followersRodolfo Pardi has had many careers in his lifetime. He was an electronics engineer for military aircraft equipment for 25 years, then a publisher for 20 years. Since 2010, he has been librarian, coach and arbiter of the Italian Chess Federation (FSI); he prepared more than 20 chess manuals in English and many more in Italian, covering many subjects not often seen in chess books.
His book, Chess Patterns, became a bestseller on Amazon.com. As with all his chess books, there are plenty of diagrams, reducing the need for a chessboard. Piece names are not foreign capital letters, but figurines - one of the first ebooks with this feature.
Books are also linked to sample games on his website, keeping the books neat, but making it easy to follow many more games, and download the PGN versions. Additional free training material is also available on the site.
Most books target novice and club players, up to 1700 ELO.
While English is not his native language, the books are well-structured and easy to read.
The cat covers are designed by Evelyne Nicod, to be found in Goodreads as an illustrator.
His book, Chess Patterns, became a bestseller on Amazon.com. As with all his chess books, there are plenty of diagrams, reducing the need for a chessboard. Piece names are not foreign capital letters, but figurines - one of the first ebooks with this feature.
Books are also linked to sample games on his website, keeping the books neat, but making it easy to follow many more games, and download the PGN versions. Additional free training material is also available on the site.
Most books target novice and club players, up to 1700 ELO.
While English is not his native language, the books are well-structured and easy to read.
The cat covers are designed by Evelyne Nicod, to be found in Goodreads as an illustrator.
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