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Summary: Excellent Training Book for Practicing Tactics
Review: This is an excellent training book for practicing tactics. There are over 1,110 diagrams sorted by theme; pins, forks, skewers, overloading, back rank weakness, Queen Sacrifices, etc.This is not a primer. Beofre tackling this book you should read an introductory tactics book such as "Winning Chess Tactics" by GM Seirawan. Once you are acquainted with all of the different themes, use this book for further practice. There are enough diagrams to keep you busy for months (even years). The intended audience for this book is most likely players rated between around 1400-2000 USCF. The main beef that some of the other reviewers seem to have is that the book contains most of the same problems as Reinfelds "1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations". My response is "so what?". If you are comfortable with descriptive notation then buy that book. But for those folks who either don't know descriptive notation, or who actually prefer solving problems in algebraic notation then this is your book. As far as the occasional error or ambiguity in a few solutions - I'm sorry but I have not seen a tactics book that is completely free of these errors. This book is no exception. Overall, you would be hard-pressed to find a better tactics review book.
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Summary: Great Tactics Workbook for Advanced Players
Review: This is one of the best tactics workbooks for an advanced player. A large number of puzzels are presented, broken down by theme. This book will help you improve your tactic skill.
A word of warning! This book is not for an Intermediate player or even a beginner. Though the author "Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors" would be for an advanced beginner or lower end intermediate player I would recommend getting the two intermediate books in the "Chess For Juniors" (by Snyder) first, "Winning Chess Tournaments for Juniors" (which focuses on the most important tactics and in many cases has the tactics build on each other - plus this book has much more) and "Unbeatable Chess Lessons for Juniors" (great tactics in these games along with comments on every move to explain things).
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