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Books on chess tactics?

>> No.12130171

copy the computer

>> No.12130178
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>>12130156
If all you're wanting to learn is tactics then you should just do online chess tactic puzzles. But if you want a positional understanding of the game read pic related

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Get a copy of pic and read it.

Then go to this site and do hundreds of tactical puzzles a day:
https://beta.chesstempo.com/

>> No.12130217

>>12130171
This. You don't need books, OP. Grandmasters nowadays play against engines and take notes.

>> No.12130234
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puzzle collections
>Laszlo Polgar - Chess - 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games
>C. Hugh O'D. Alexander - The Penguin Book of Chess Positions
>Tim Brennan - Tactics Time! 1001 Chess Tactics vol 1&2

every major chess site has a puzzle section with increasing difficulty
"lucas chess" is a free UCI-Compatible Chess GUI and also has several different training modes for tactics

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>>12130201
>hundreds of tactical puzzles a day
wrong mindset
it's more beneficial to get ten out of ten right than solving fifty out of hundred.

>> No.12130368

>>12130278
nah

>> No.12130499

>>12130368
yes, if you choose volume over quality, you will only plateau early, as shown by most people in the top ten absolute solver statistic on chesstempo,. because they keep skipping the ones that would improve their baselevel and teach them something new.

>> No.12130508

>>12130499
if you have 100% success rate you're probably skipping hard ones