MORE CHESS PUZZLES FOR BEGINNERS: Expand Your Tactical Arsenal with Intermediate Chess Puzzles (2024 Guide for Beginners)

By STEPHEN MALONE

"More Chess Puzzles for Beginners" offers a continuation of the journey into the fascinating world of chess tactics, providing intermediate-level players with a wealth of engaging puzzles to further refine their skills and strategic understanding. With a focus on building upon foundational knowledge and exploring more advanced tactical concepts,

• Language: English
• Publisher: STEPHEN MALONE
• Release date: Feb 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9783988318534

STEPHEN MALONE

Stephen Malone is a seasoned chess instructor based in New York City. With a passion for teaching and a deep understanding of the game, he has helped numerous students of all ages improve their chess skills. Stephen's approachable style and focus on tactical training make his books popular among beginners and intermediate players alike.

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STEPHEN MALONE

MORE CHESS PUZZLES FOR BEGINNERS

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Contents

1. Introduction

2. The Value of the Pieces

3. Capturing Pieces

4. Capturing Undefended Pawns

5. Capturing Undefended Pieces

6. Capturing Major Pieces

7. Forks

8. The Skewer

9. The Pin

10. Pieces That Are Already Pinned

11. Removing the Defender of a Pinned Piece

12. Finding a Piece to Pin

13. Test What You’ve Learned So Far

14. Checkmates

15. Discovered Attacks

16. The Big Test

1

Introduction

Have you only lately picked up the game and are still Chess Blind?

Maybe you’ve recently picked up the game of chess after reading one of the books in this series for beginners. Even when you know what each component accomplishes, a position still appears to be a disorganised collection of parts. Is this a treatable type of dyslexia, or should we call it dis-chessia? It’s well knowledge that a few moves may lead to millions of possible chess situations. Isn’t learning to read the same way? Although there are countless ways to arrange the letters, once you learn to read, you can quickly understand words and phrases to understand sentences. In the game of chess, this is also true. The letters are called pieces, and groupings of pieces combine to form patterns, similar to words, which together determine the present location. Next, you perused the present state as if it were a phrase.This book is intended to be more than just a collection of riddles, according to the creator. Rather, it is a sequence of brief lectures meant to elucidate the central idea of a set of riddles. After then, each puzzle set begins with a location that has been peeled back to highlight the pattern. The board then gets additional pieces added and more subdued variations of the pattern presented as the series of puzzles for that theme develops.

The second book in the series is this one. In the first book, we worked our way up from very simple strategies to forks and checkmates. We will only touch on the fundamentals briefly in this book, and even then, they will be at a