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TACTICS: Tricks of the Tribes is a collection of different tactical motifs presented in a series of workbooks. Discover the various clever tactical ideas and concepts, and train your chess brain to become a deadly opponent! The workbooks are arranged into chapters presenting tactical tricks in a clear way and provide plenty of instructive exercises for training. "Mate in 1 Move" has 182 varied tasks and can be beneficial for both beginners to learn the mating patterns and for a bit more experienced players to train the immediate recognition of these patterns. Skill level: Beginner - up to 1300 in chess rating

With this book of little adventures, children will learn to play chess and be effortlessly engaged throughout thanks to the gripping mix of exciting characters and logical challenges. The course is especially developed for young learners, whose attention span and abstract reasoning can be limited. In addition to the fun and engaging stories leading the way, the authors are using a systematic associative approach to explaining the abstract rules, moves, strategies and tactics of chess through concrete situations, objects and characters surrounding a child in real life, designed so children of all abilities will enjoy. The course is perfectly suited to teaching either a class group or on a one to one basis. It has 28 lessons and 7 revision sections. At the end of the book you will find a final test and a certificate of merit. Level 1 consists of a student book and three workbooks (sold separately). Skill level: New to chess - Beginner

Welcome to an adventurous course that will challenge your logical skills while you learn to play chess! Level 1 consists of a Student Book and three Workbooks (sold separately). Workbook 3 "The Battle" covers lessons 17-28 of the course and provides a variety of tricky tasks to help you train your chess excellence. Special feature: exercises with stickers. Skill level: New to chess - Beginner

Welcome to an adventurous course that will challenge your logical skills while you learn to play chess! Level 1 consists of a Student Book and three Workbooks (sold separately). Workbook 1 "The Chess Pieces" covers lessons 1-8 of the course and provides a variety of tricky tasks to help you train your chess excellence. Special feature: exercises with stickers. Skill level: New to chess - Beginner

TACTICS: Tricks of the Tribes is a collection of different tactical motifs presented in a series of workbooks. Discover the various clever tactical ideas and concepts, and train your chess brain to become a deadly opponent! The workbooks are arranged into chapters presenting tactical tricks in a clear way and provide plenty of instructive exercises for training. Combinations in chess are about playing a series of surprising moves with a bigger goal in mind. There are infinite possibilities when it comes to combinations, but most typical ones are grouped into main categories in the workbook "Combinations". You will get to learn and practice blocking, bank-rank mate, clearance, removing the defender and interference. The degree of difficulty varies, but at a relatively comfortable level. The workbook provides lots of great training material for players starting at intermediate and up to the master level. Skill level: Intermediate - Advanced or chess rating 800-2200

The course is especially developed for young learners, whose attention span and abstract reasoning can be limited. In addition to the fun and engaging stories leading the way, the authors are using a systematic associative approach to explaining the abstract rules, moves, strategies and tactics of chess through concrete situations, objects and characters surrounding a child in real life, designed so children of all abilities will enjoy. The course is perfectly suited to teaching either a class group or on a one to one basis. It has 28 lessons and 7 revision sections. At the end of the Studen book you will find a final test and a certificate of merit. Level 1 consists of a student book and three workbooks. Workbooks are designed to provide extra training for the topics covered in the Student Book. It is very beneficial to practice acquired skills a lot and from different angles to learn them properly. Knowing how quickly children get bored about doing repetitive tasks, the authors have developed a great supply of various tricky tasks to help your child stay focused. Special feature: exercises with stickers. Skill level: New to chess - Beginner

TACTICS: Tricks of the Tribes is a collection of different tactical motifs presented in a series of workbooks. Discover the various clever tactical ideas and concepts, and train your chess brain to become a deadly opponent! The workbooks are arranged into chapters presenting tactical tricks in a clear way and provide plenty of instructive exercises for training. "Pin" includes 181 tasks that present this important tactical tool. There are loads of nice and instructive examples, the majority of them quite challenging, as practical chess is. You will get to learn and practice absolute and relative pins, as well as cross-pinning and unpinning motifs. Skill level: Intermediate or chess rating 900-2000

TACTICS: Tricks of the Tribes is a collection of different tactical motifs presented in a series of workbooks. Discover the various clever tactical ideas and concepts, and train your chess brain to become a deadly opponent! The workbooks are arranged into chapters presenting tactical tricks in a clear way and provide plenty of instructive exercises for training. "Ambush" is a workbook devoted to training discovered attacks. You will find pretty varied and elegant examples of this effective tactical tool, including the double check. The chapter "Loading the Cannon" is a nice addition to the material, showing the positions in which the discovered attack is being prepared. The topic "Windmill" is also an extra and a natural delicacie of this workbook. Some of the tasks are quite challenging. Skill level: Intermediate or chess rating 800-1800

TACTICS: Tricks of the Tribes is a collection of different tactical motifs presented in a series of workbooks. Discover the various clever tactical ideas and concepts, and train your chess brain to become a deadly opponent! The workbooks are arranged into chapters presenting tactical tricks in a clear way and provide plenty of instructive exercises for training. "Decoy" has 177 tasks dealing with the deflection motif. You can deflect a piece that is defending the king or you may deflect a piece to win material. The piece being deflected will become overloaded, with too many tasks to deal with. Other topics of the workbook are devoted to leading the opponent's king or his important piece to a position they would prefer to avoid, and where they become vulnerable to another tactical blow. Lots of nice exercises with useful patterns to learn, but they are generally not that easy. Skill level: Intermediate or chess rating 1000-2000

TACTICS: Tricks of the Tribes is a collection of different tactical motifs presented in a series of workbooks. Discover the various clever tactical ideas and concepts, and train your chess brain to become a deadly opponent! The workbooks are arranged into chapters presenting tactical tricks in a clear way and provide plenty of instructive exercises for training. "Fork" has 181 tasks where white or black wins with the help of double attack, and in most cases a combination of 2 or 3 moves. You often win in chess by threatening more than your opponent can protect, and it applies both to material and checkmate. There many elegant exercises with the patterns to drill that a chess player needs to learn on their way up. The level is pretty demanding, on average probably ideal for players starting at 800 in rating, and as drilling for players up to at least 2000. The knight has a privileged position on the cover, but all the pieces are in and make forks. Skill level: Intermediate or chess rating 800-2000

TACTICS: Tricks of the Tribes is a collection of different tactical motifs presented in a series of workbooks. Discover the various clever tactical ideas and concepts, and train your chess brain to become a deadly opponent! The workbooks are arranged into chapters presenting tactical tricks in a clear way and provide plenty of instructive exercises for training. Chess studies are like beautiful art and action movies rolled into one. There is breathtaking elegance mixed in with lots of twists and turns, and a great imagination is needed not only to create them, but also to solve them! This workbook is for those of us who have an eye for the beautiful things in life. To solve endgame studies is a challenging task, something for grandmasters and other very strong players. But this is a rewarding work to try yourself at, before checking the answers, which develops the players visual abilities. Luckily, some of the studies are presented not from the starting position, but after some moves in the "Studies" workbook, so the chances go up. Skill level: Intermediate - Expert or chess rating 1400 to up to grandmaster level

TACTICS: Tricks of the Tribes is a collection of different tactical motifs presented in a series of workbooks. Discover the various clever tactical ideas and concepts, and train your chess brain to become a deadly opponent! The workbooks are arranged into chapters presenting tactical tricks in a clear way and provide plenty of instructive exercises for training. "Mate in 2 Moves" has many nice tasks were you will checkmate in 2 moves. There are 177 exercises sorted by topics and key role pieces. Great training for up and coming players as it is considered highly beneficial to practice tactics as much as possible. The faster you can get through it the better. Skill level: Beginner - Intermediate or 800-1700 in chess rating