The Chess Tactics There's No Flipping Back and Forth Like You Have to Do in Other Tactics Books

This book is a desire of some of the much less complex tactical issues from my book "Progressive Tactics: 1002 Progressively Challenging Chess Tactics". As the "Don't Play Like Me" call implies, the selected methods are all positions in which I fell victim to certainly one of my opponent's methods, so they are all from real over-the-board video games and are of the type that you can anticipate to appear to your video video games. The reason for this book is simple - it is supposed...
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This book is a desire of some of the much less complex tactical issues from my book "Progressive Tactics: 1002 Progressively Challenging Chess Tactics". As the "Don't Play Like Me" call implies, the selected methods are all positions in which I fell victim to certainly one of my opponent's methods, so they are all from real over-the-board video games and are of the type that you can anticipate to appear to your video video games. The reason for this book is simple - it is supposed to raise your rating (or truly notably beautify your game if you're now not a rated player). Rather than pass proper right into an extended rationalization of why running toward methods is so essential to improvement, I'll truly allow you to realize my private experience. I began playing healthy chess withinside the Nineteen Eighties and spent about a long time rated withinside the 1500-1650 range at the same time as I studied starting books, endgame books, and method books to no avail (you can see my rating graph here: http://main.uschess.org/datapage/ratings_graph.php?memid=12413721). Over the years I had tested occasional comments about the importance of that specializing in methods in particular else, however, it in no manner sunk in. Sometime in 2007, I look at a column through manner of the method of the amazing instructor Dan Heisman about the importance of methods, which have become so well written and persuasive, that it in the long run sunk in that I needed to try to specialize in methods. Well, suffice it to say that it worked. I began working on methods withinside the excellent book "Sharpen Your Tactics" through manner of the method of Anatoly Lein (almost) every day and my rating rose to a pinnacle of 1845. Then sooner or later in 2009 I step by step changed given a long way from working on methods for numerous reasons and my rating plummeted once more to 1600. In 2012 I began reading methods all yet again and peaked at 1858 at which component I began working on this book and stopped doing my daily methods workout and... my rating plummeted another time. Since finishing the book, I've gotten once more to daily methods workout and my rating has another time began climbing.