num_pages: 192
description: Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun! This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about  and benefiting from  the recurring patterns of tactics. In chess if you lose all your pieces you can't win! And if you capture each of your opponent's pieces winning should be easy. Even if you just get ahead by a small amount of material your chances of winning soar. The way to win your opponent's pieces is through the use of tactics. This book is about all types of beginning tactics. The author covers comprehensively the subject with basic instructional material examples and problems of all types  about 500 examples and problems ranging from too easy to very difficult! Back to Tactics  the first in the ChessCafe Back to Basics Chess Series  should enhance your enjoyment in learning about  and benefiting from  the recurring patterns of tactics.It does not matter who gets the advantage out of the opening if one of the players is likely to lose a piece to a simple tactic in the middlegame. Losing a piece from an advantageous position will almost always result in a lost position. So study tactics not openings until you almost never lose pieces to simple tactical motifs.This book is an introduction to the various kinds of basic chess tactics. With instructional material examples and problems of all types the subject of chess tactics is covered comprehensively. There are approximately 500 examples ranging from easy to challenging!
language: English
title: Back to Basics: Tactics
publisher: Russell Enterprises, Inc.