Tactics Training - Fabiano Caruana: How to improve your Chess with Fabiano Caruana and become a Chess Tactics Master

By Frank Erwich

This tactics training book gives you the opportunity to make the same winning moves as super Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana made in his games. One hundred training exercises are offered here, in positions which the Italian turned in his favour. The puzzles start at a moderate level and gradually get more difficult. How many good moves can you make in a row?

• Language: English
• Publisher: New in Chess
• Release date: Feb 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9789056916671

Frank Erwich

Frank Erwich is a FIDE Master and an experienced chess trainer from the Netherlands. He holds a Master’s degree in Psychology. In 2019 he published the bestselling 1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players.

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Fabiano Caruana

This tactics training book gives you the opportunity to make the same winning moves as super Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana made in his games. One hundred training exercises are offered here, in positions which the Italian turned in his favour. The puzzles start at a moderate level and gradually get more difficult. How many good moves can you make in a row?

Fabiano Caruana (1992) reached the #2 spot in the World Rankings in October 2014. A few months earlier the Italian grandmaster had crossed the 2800 Elo barrier. Caruana won elite tournaments in Dortmund (2012 and 2014) and in Zurich (2013), but the biggest success of his career so far is his victory at the Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis, 2014, where his opponents had an average Elo-rating of 2802. With 8� points out of 10 games he finished three points ahead of World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Caruana started the tournament with seven wins in a row. Such winning streaks are now commonly known as 'doing a Caruana'.

After his incredible performance in Saint Louis, most chess fans tipped Caruana as the next challenger of World Champion Magnus Carlsen. During an interview with Chess 24 (November 25, 2014), the World #2 did not seem to be afraid of such an encounter: