1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook That Explains the Basic Concepts, Too

Very good book for beginner level players...when you start seeing positions from mate in 2, Only forced variations is the solution which is a perfect fit for starters ..i have recommended this book for students of Deccan Chess academy.

Just started and already love in with the book.

Nice book to explore for beginners

great book for beginners , intermediate and advance players

Bought it from Google book, The difficuly level swings heavily, from 1 mover to 9 mover combination. Some includes 2, 3 sub variations other than the mainline. Problem no 290 is 9 move mate with two sub line.

mate in one and two mover tactics ideal for beginners. Diagrams are very small and print is of poor quality.

Good book

Good statergic details

Great book, its helped me a lot in my chess. Its nice to practice not using a screen.

I am a class B player who used this book to broaden my knowledge of short, simple tactical motifs, and to improve my ability to quickly recognize these simple motifs through repetition in practice. Most of the exercises in the first half of the book were much too simple for a class B player, but the exercises in the latter half of the book required a little thought, on the order of 5 to 15 seconds to solve. None of the exercises in this book were overly challenging to me, but I saw some new (to me) and somewhat tricky tactical patterns. One thing I particularly liked about the book was the wide variety of tactical motifs presented and the amount of repetition of these motifs (enough repetition to make the concept stick, but not too much so as to bore the reader). This book is probably too basic for a class B player, but I did get the practice I wanted and it took very little time to complete the book. I generally agree with the points made by Mr. Falter, who does a good job of accurately describing the contents of the book and its virtues. I give this book 5 stars because (1) it contains 1001 accurate tactical exercises, appropriately arranged by category and order of difficulty; and (2) a wide range of tactical motifs are presented with an appropriate amount of repetition. This book would be very useful tactics practice for beginning to low-intermediate chessplayers.

Must have for beginners, club players. It makes huge difference in the way we see the board before making a move and helps recognizing so many patterns.

Tout simplement un des meilleurs livres d'exercices de ma bibliothèque échiquenne. Tous les principaux thèmes tactiques sont abordés. Chacun de ces thèmes est expliqué et décortiqué en détails pour en comprendre l'esprit, quelques exemples à l'appui, puis plusieurs pages d'exercices sont proposées, de difficulté croissante Ils ne sont pas simples, donc pas pour débutants, mais à partir de 1500 ELO. Très riches d'enseignement. Plusieurs variantes très pertinentes pour presque chaque diagramme, donc très bien pour s'entraîner à calculer ! Je recommande absolument cet excellent livre !

Before reading this book, my ELO rating would be around 800, I am only on page 26 of this book and my ELO rating is 1043. Before you start to read the book, you should know all the chess rules/moves and chess notation. Great Book!