Chess Target Practice : Battle Tactics for Every Square on the Board

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Summary: An excellent exercise for honing and beginning chess skills
Review: Bruce Pandolfini shows his true abilities as a chess coach and player by writing this introductory/continuation of the ancient game chess. The book covers every square of the board, going over such battle tactics as the more obvious skewer, fork, basic trapping, to the subtler pin and Zugswang. He shows and teaches the player how to recognize the piece to be exploited, and how to do it quickly and visciously, leaving your opponent floundering in your mighty wake. I highly recommend it as a starting point for anyone wanting to beat their opponent.

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Summary: Too Bad and Basic...
Review: I thought this was a neat book. This book explains how to handle hand to hand combat for each and every square. I would reccomend this book to all beginers.

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Summary: Must-buy
Review: I thought this was a neat book. This book explains how to handle hand to hand combat for each and every square. I would reccomend this book to all beginers.

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Summary: Tactics for ___Beginners___
Review: This book is for beginners. Just for beginners. It has lots of "nice" positions but it's _too_ easy and obvious. I didn't like the comments on each problem - sometimes Bruce is very ironic and looses the _real point_

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Summary: Too Bad and Basic...
Review: This book is just too basic to be of any real use... The comments that Bruce makes are also a bit annoying on a few problems etc... Also I think they fail to capture the real point sometimes as well. If your rated about 800 and wanna make it to maybe 1000. Thats about as far as this book can take you at best to be honest. Try a book like The Mammoth book of Chess, or Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. Just to name to starter books that would help you more. If you wanna be another stepping stone for someone. Then by all means invest and waste your money in this book.