Winning Chess Tactics

by Yasser Seirawan

• ISBN13: 9781857443332
• ISBN10: 1857443330
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Everyman Chess

Summary

Learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the world's top chess players. 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. International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan shows chess players how to put the tactics of the world's chess legends to work for them. Choose from the double attack, the pin, the skewer, deflection, the deacute;cor, x-rays, windmills, and many more time-tested tactics.

Author Biography

Yasser Seirawan is a three-time U.S. Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion, and an eight time member of the U.S. chess Olympiad team. He was the first American to vie for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer. 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	vii
Introduction	ix
PART 1 Tactics and Combinations
CHAPTER ONE	Definitions
CHAPTER TWO The Double Attack	9	(26)
CHAPTER THREE The Pin	35	(12)
CHAPTER FOUR The skewer	47	(4)
CHAPTER FIVE King Tactics and Combinations	51	(22)
CHAPTER SIX Deflection	73	(6)
CHAPTER SEVEN Battery on an Open File or Diagonal	79	(10)
CHAPTER EIGHT The Power of Pawns	89	(10)
CHAPTER NINE The Decoy	99	(6)
CHAPTER TEN Clearance sacrifice	105	(6)
CHAPTER ELEVEN X-Rays and Windmills	111	(6)
CHAPTER TWELVE Zwischenzug	117	(2)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Other Kinds of Draws	119	(16)
PART 2 Great Tacticians and Their Games
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Adolf Andersen (1818-1879)	135	(10)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Paul Morphy (1837-1884)	145	(6)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Rudolf Spielmann (1883-1942)	151	(6)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Frank Marshall (1877-1944)	157	(6)
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946)	163	(12)
CHAPTER NINETEEN Mikhail Tal (1936-1992)	175	(10)
CHAPTER TWENTY Garry Kasparov (1963-)	185	(14)
PART 3 More Tests and Solutions
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Basic Tactics	199	(2)
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Advanced Combinations	201	(2)
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Professional Combinations	203	(2)
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Solutions to Tests from Part 1	205	(18)
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Solutions to Tests from Part 3	223	(12)
Glossary	235	(14)
Index	249