Understanding Chess Tactics

Martin
Weteschni
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Contents

List of symbols
4

Preface
5

What is this book about?

7

Introduction
13
1
Becoming familiar with the pieces!
17
2
The pin
23
3
The discovered attack
51
4
The Reloader
77
5
The double attack
87
6
Mate
107
7
Gain of tempo/intermediate move
143
8
The X-ray attack
159
9
Opening and closing lines
165
10
Status examination
177

Solutions to exercises
219

Indexes
232
What is this book about?
Chess is a visual game. A chess player must be able to recognise elementary patterns, therefore
the tactics in this book will be primarily explained graphically. This approach is supported by a large
numbers of diagrams, which will also allow the reader to study this book without a chessboard.

Chess is also a game of logic. Logic, in the same way as chess tactics, depends on
collecting and processing information. This book will show you how to accurately find the
elements of tactics, and work with them creatively.

This book is divided into the following parts:

Chapter 2 The pin
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XABCDEF
Chapter 1
GHY 8-+- 1...£h7†!
Becoming familiar with the pieces!
+-+- There is much more
to know about the
XABCDEFGHY 8-+-+- mk0Ç pin than might
appear at first sight.
+k+0 7+-+-+pzpp0 7zpl+-
6pvL-+-+-+0 5+- wq-+-0 1...£h7† looks like a
mistake because of

+ltr-+-0 4Pzp-+-+- 6-zp-+- 2.¦h3 but...

+0 3+-+-+QzPq0 2- zp-+0 The theme of this

zP-+-zP-zP0 1+-tR-+-5+- chapter is the chain

mK-0r xiiiiiiiiy zprzp-zp- of three points that

constitutes the
1.g4! 0 4-+-+- formation of a pin:

It is an illusion to assume that after 1.g4 the +P+0 t The pin’s

interaction with
black queen could take the white queen. The
black queen cannot move, because she is 3wQP+R other pieces and
squares on the
the black bishop has no time to take the white +-+-0
defending against ¦c1-c8 mate. That is also why
board.
queen.
2P+-+- t How to recognise the
In this chapter you will learn (among other
things) to safeguard yourself against illusions
zPP+0 pin if it is in a preli-
minary state (only two
points out of three). t )
of this kind. 1+L+-+- PX UP DSFBUF B QJO
BOE XPSL XJUI JU
+K0
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