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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Logical Approach to Combination Play,
By "loo_chess" (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Basis of Combination in Chess (Paperback)
This book shows how each individual piece can contribute to combinational play. It also shows how pieces work together in certain situations to deliver checkmate or win material.The only downfall I see is that most combination books, this one included, fail to appreciate the power of removing enough force from a piece or square to capture material cleanly. Yes, double attacks, pins, and forks are an integral part of tactical play, but interference, clearance, and removal of guard themes are the real keys to becoming tactically proficient.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Surprisingly Effective Learning Tool,
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This review is from: The Basis of Combination in Chess (Paperback)
This book was first published in 1938 and is surprisingly effective as a learning tool. Pay close attention to a sentence in the very front of the book, one easily skipped over, about how to best use the book: the advice is to mentally play through the examples, from the diagrams, while using the book, and then play them through again, setting them up on a board, this time without using the book. This technique is very effective in teaching and reinforcing the principles described.
The book looks at combinations based on the unique abilities of individual pieces, first separately and then in various groupings. The examples are generally easy enough to follow and favor clarity over complexity (although of necessity the material in the latter parts of the book gets rather involved). A close study of the book is helping me with visualization as well as gaining understanding of the "inner workings" so to speak of each chess piece. Why bother with "yet another" tactics book, when there are so many out there? Why put up with old-style descriptive notation? (Come on, it's not so bad.) Because this is decidedly not "yet another" tactics book. While basic tactical motifs get covered, this is almost incidental, because the focus is on the chess pieces themselves. The tactics arise out of the unique ability of the pieces. This seems to be a very intuitive approach and quite different from "let's study skewers" or "let's study discovered attacks." In short, the focus of the book is quite unique and even at nearly 70 years old, new insights can be found. One star off, giving a rating of four, because at times the prose is less than completely lucid. Definitely worth the $10 or so the book commands on the used market. It has won a place on my study table, where only a small handful of books reside.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Combination Mastery,
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This review is from: The Basis of Combination in Chess (Paperback)
This is a dated book, but one of the very best at teaching combinations for chess mastery. I recommend this book to anyone who already grasps the game of chess, but would like to up his game from beginner to intermediate. This is elementary to an advanced chess player but even they will appreciate the scope of how this book teaches combination moves to annihilate your opponents.
The best thing one can do is get a chess board out and set up the pieces just how this book illustrates and go through the motions. I guarantee if you do this at least 3-4 days a week your chess game will double or even triple in tactics. Highly Recommended from a chess club champion(myself) It is much better to use a real chess set instead of an online program. You really get the feel of how the moves interact with one another. I am giving this book 5 stars because it deserves it and is one of the more obscure books you never see at a library, but extremely helpful.
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