Winning Chess Tactics

by Yasser Seirawan

• ISBN13: 9780735609174
• ISBN10: 0735609179
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Microsoft Pr

Summary

The essential guide to the use of tactics the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush an opponent and change the course of a game in a single move

Author Biography

Yasser Seirawan is the highest-rated American chess professional on the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) rating ladder and the first American to vie for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer. He is a three-time U.S. Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion, and an eight-time member of the U.S. Chess Olympiad team. Currently one of the world's top-ranked chess players, he is one of only a handful of players to have defeated world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament play.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Tactics and Combinations
Definitions	p. 3
The Double Attack	p. 9
The Pin	p. 35
The Skewer	p. 47
King Tactics and Combinations	p. 51
Deflection	p. 73
Battery on an Open File or Diagonal	p. 79
The Power of Pawns	p. 89
The Decoy	p. 99
Clearance Sacrifice	p. 105
X-Rays and Windmills	p. 111
Zwischenzug	p. 117
Other Kinds of Draws	p. 119
Great Tacticians and Their Games
Adolf Anderssen (1818-1879)	p. 135
Paul Morphy (1837-1884)	p. 145
Rudolf Spielmann (1883-1942)	p. 151
Frank Marshall (1877-1944)	p. 157
Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946)	p. 163
Mikhail Tal (1936-1992)	p. 175
Garry Kasparov (1963-)	p. 185
More Tests and Solutions
Basic Tactics	p. 199
Advanced Combinations	p. 201
Professional Combinations	p. 203
Solutions to Tests from Part 1	p. 205
Solutions to Tests from Part 3	p. 223
Glossary	p. 235
Index	p. 249
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