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Winning Chess Tactics
Yasser Seirawan
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Description for Winning Chess Tactics
Paperback. .
Readers will learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the world's top chess players. Attack? Defend? Swap pieces? Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush opponents and quite possibly change the course of a game in a single move. Why should players only hope that opponents will blunder when International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan can show them how to put the tactics of the world's chess legends to work. Choose from the double attack, the pin, the skewer, deflection, the decor, x-rays, windmills, and many more time-tested tactics. Using ... Read more
Readers will learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the world's top chess players. Attack? Defend? Swap pieces? Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush opponents and quite possibly change the course of a game in a single move. Why should players only hope that opponents will blunder when International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan can show them how to put the tactics of the world's chess legends to work. Choose from the double attack, the pin, the skewer, deflection, the decor, x-rays, windmills, and many more time-tested tactics. Using ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman Chess United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Winning Chess Series
Condition
New
Weight
483g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857443868
SKU
V9781857443868
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-11
About Yasser Seirawan
Yasser Seirawan is one of the top-ranked chess players in the USA and was the first American candidate for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer. He is a four-time US Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion and an ten-time member of the US Chess Olympiad team. Hi achievements distinguish him as one of only a handful of players to ... Read more
Reviews for Winning Chess Tactics
"An excellent book to improve your tactical play."
Chesscorner.com "Seirawan does a remarkable job of discussing tactics that usually appear only in books for advanced players and communicating them to anyone with a grasp of playing fundamentals."
Alude.com "This book is the most thorough treatment of tactics that I have ever seen."
Evan Kreider, ChessPraxis
Chesscorner.com "Seirawan does a remarkable job of discussing tactics that usually appear only in books for advanced players and communicating them to anyone with a grasp of playing fundamentals."
Alude.com "This book is the most thorough treatment of tactics that I have ever seen."
Evan Kreider, ChessPraxis