ECP 2. Encyclopedia of Chess Patterns part 2: Tactics: Forks, Lined up pieces, Defensive patterns

by Rodolfo Pardi, Evelyne Nicod (Illustrator)

This ebook is a combination of patterns originally contained in three other books of Forks, Lined up pieces, Defensive patterns. The information contained in my former books was limited by the size of the files, which could not be exceeded to maintain the price to 1 $. Here, with a small increase of price, there's no limit to the content, with a lot of diagrams (150 overall), to help understanding the patterns. The patterns are TACTIC patterns ONLY. It presents also easy access to more games located on my Web site, as usual. If you are reading this, I assume you are familiar with my way to write and my if this is not the case I suggest you read ECP part 1 before. This time to go through the examples you need an excellent visualization, or a chessboard, or an Internet connection to follow the games, going to and fro, and download the PGN. Novice and intermediate players are the target of this book, class C and below, up to 1500 Fide Elo rating. While this book was prepared for a monochromatic e-ink display, better experience with Kindle Fire or PC Enjoy the reading Rodolfo Pardi, librarian, FSI (Italian Chess Federation) instructor and tournament director This translation is based on ebooks written in Italian. Some minor language errors might still be found, for which I apologize. To help, notation is algebraic with figurines (fine tuned for appearance on a real Kindle). Look inside to verify that you will understand

399 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 8, 2014

About the author

Rodolfo 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.