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What are your favorite chess tactics training books?
Here are some nominations. Listed by alphabetical order by the author's name. beginner, intermediate, and advanced are all mixed together here. What are your favorites?
Alburt- Chess Training Pocket Book I and II
Averbakh- Chess Tactics for Advanced Players
Bain- Chess Tactics for Students
Dvoretsky- Secrets of Chess Tactics
Littlewood- Chess Tactics
Meyer & Mueller The Magic of Chess Tactics
Minev- Mastering Tactical Ideas
Neishtadt- Improve Your Chess Tactics
Neischtadt- Queen Sacrifice
Palatnik & Alburt Chess Tactis for the Tournament Player
Polgar L.- Chess 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games
Plogar S.- Chess Tactics for Champions
Reinfeld- 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations
Reinfeld- 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate
Tal-"Tal's Winning Chess Combinations updated as 1000 Checkmate Combinations by Khenkin
Speelman- Chess Puzzle Book
Weteschnick- Chess Tactics from Scratch
2 Answers
- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
Tal's Winning Chess Combinations they don't write books of that quality anymore.
- Anonymous8 years ago
I'll bet most players read those Reinfeld books when they were beginners. I never buy books like these. Why spend money on a tactics book, even if it does have 1,000 puzzles, when you can get ten times that many absolutely free on internet sites? You can also pick-up a lot of these tactical ideas from playing through master games and studying annotated games in magazines or web sites. Those tactics seem to stay in my memory longer, because they come from an actual game, not some made-up problem.