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Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days
Improve Your Tactics Quickly
by Gary Lane

Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days
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Publisher: Batsford, 2009
Edition: Paperback medium
Pages: 224
Language: English

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Desperate to brush up on your chess tactics but don't have time for long hours of study?

This follow-up to Gary Lane's bestselling Improve Your Chess in 7 Days is the book for you!

Handily arranged day by day, it is full of easy-to-follow advice on developing nifty tricks that will confound your opponent. It includes all the basic tactical skills such as pins, decoys, deflections, and double attacks, then delves deeper, showing you how to harness them at various points of the game.

It also contains a sprinkling of chess cartoons from the acclaimed illustrator Gerrard Oswald to keep you smiling as you read.

The book covers:

Day 1: So you want to improve your tactics?
Day 2: Understanding tactics
Day 3: Develop your creativity
Day 4: Tactics in the opening
Day 5: Tactics in the middlegame
Day 6: Tactics in the endgame
Day 7: Blunders and brilliancies

Packed with tips and tricks, this book's clear, no-nonsense style makes it the ideal companion for sharpening your tactics - quickly.

Australian chess champion and Player of the Year for 2004, Gary Lane is a prolific and popular chess author. He has written over a dozen titles, including Improve Your Chess in 7 Days, Find the Winning Move and Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings: Black.
He is also a well-known chess trainer, and has been involved in coaching some of England and Australia's top junior players.

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