John Bain’s best-selling book
Chess Tactics For Students
Chess Tactics contains 14 chapters.
Each chapter contains three parts:
Introduction defining the tactic.
Instruction with 4 instructive, model problems to solve.
28 Problems increasing in difficulty.
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Chapter 1 – Pins
Chapter 2 – Back Rank Combinations
Chapter 3 – Knight Forks
Chapter 4 – Other Forks/Double Attacks
Chapter 5 – Discovered Checks
Chapter 6 – Double Checks
Chapter 7 – Discovered Attacks
Chapter 8 – Skewers
Chapter 9 – Double Threats
Chapter 10 – Promoting Pawns
Chapter 11 – Removing the Guard
Chapter 12 – Perpetual Check
Chapter 13 – Zugzwang/Stalemate
Chapter 14 – Quizzes: Identifying Tactics*
*Chess Tactics concludes with “Chapter 14 – Quizzes: Identifying Tactics,” containing 30 problems that challenge students to solve the puzzle and name the tactics used!
Chess Tactics For Students
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Chess Tactics For Students is a workbook for intermediate and advanced students containing 434 carefully selected problems in worksheet format. Chess Tactics has been extensively field tested with elementary, middle-school, and high-school students over a four-year period.
This book is ideal for independent seat work as well as for homework and classroom instruction.
The worksheet format and Answer Key enable self-correction with minimal dependence or direct help from a chess teacher, coach, or parent.
