Category: Tactics

This is problem 156 from The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book: 1001 Original Chess Puzzles to Challenge All Standards of Player, from Beginner to Grandmaster, by John Emms…

This is problem 24 from The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book: 1001 Original Chess Puzzles to Challenge All Standards of Player, from Beginner to Grandmaster, by John Emms…

This position is based on problem 17 from The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book: 1001 Original Chess Puzzles to Challenge All Standards of Player, from Beginner to Grandmaster, by John Emms…

This is problem 3 in The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book: 1001 Original Chess Puzzles to Challenge All Standards of Player, from Beginner to Grandmaster, by John Emms…

This is problem 1 in The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book: 1001 Original Chess Puzzles to Challenge All Standards of Player, from Beginner to Grandmaster, by John Emms…

This is problem 671 in The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book: 1001 Original Chess Puzzles to Challenge All Standards of Player, from Beginner to Grandmaster, by John Emms…

Training the mind is essential in chess. You must instill all the mental habits that are necessary to ensure that you play at a consistent strength. One area for which training is needed is chess tactics. Chess tactics can be defined as sequences of forcing moves for which your opponent has only one or a few logical responses and any other legal moves will clearly be sub-optimal.