Chess is 99% tactics. If this celebrated observation is true for the master, how much more so for beginners and casual players! If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training combinations.

There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises.

Chess masters and trainers Franco Masetti and Roberto Messa have done both: they explain the basic tactical ideas AND provide an enormous amount of exercises for each different theme. Masetti and Messa have created a great first tactics book. It teaches you how to:

• identify weak spots in the position of your opponent
• recognize patterns of combinations
• visualize tricks.

1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners can also be used as a course text book, because only the most didactically productive exercises have been used

Content:
007 Mate in one

013 Mate in two

025 The missing piece

029 Double attack

035 Discovered attack

039 Discovered check

043 Double check

047 Pin

053 Skewer

057 Deflection

061 Decoy sacrifice

065 Pawn promotion

071 Drawing tactics

075 Mixed motifs: White

093 Mixed motifs: Black

109 Mate in three

117 Mate in four

121 Curiosities

125 Solutions

144 Glossary