Checkmate Tactics

by Garry Kasparov

Tactical play is the nitty-gritty of chess. It’s the stuff that players are trying to work out when they say to themselves, “If I go there and he goes there ... and then I check him with the knight ... now, what can he do ... etc.” At a social or weak club level, virtually 100% of games are decided for tactical reasons.

 

If you want to play good chess you have to understand tactics. It’s that simple!

 

Checkmate Tactics, written by the greatest chess player of all time, will help you achieve this goal.

Genres: Chess

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Russian (formerly Soviet) chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider the greatest chess player of all time.

Reviews

[Murray · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent chess book for beginners and those returning to the game. Kasparov is an amazing man not just as a chess master.

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 1 out of 5]

A real measure of a book is how appropriate the problems are for the beginner, and how the following problems build upon each other as smoothly as possible, with things getting gradually harder

The diagrams are not especially easy on the eyes, nor are the colorful three dimensional arrows very helpful

There's a ton of well thought out books out there on the subject which are streamlined, short and crystal clear.

without padding 15 pages into a 100 page book
to just be a money grab

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess has clarity to it, though it's not especially deep

avoid at all costs
the books you want are from people who spend decades of their life teaching beginners, or who write vast tomes on tactical patterns

You can get books with 200 simple tactics and 200 simple checkmates by A.J. Gillam who select the problems especially well

all this has is a fancy name and nice colors
with some terrible graphic design and pedagogy

clarity wins every time

[D SREENIVASARAO]

want to read
checkmate tactics

[François Le Grand · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very useful introduction to chess tactics with a series of exercises at the end. Definitely recommend for beginners with a strong desire to improve pins, skewers, forks and mating patterns.