1001 Checkmate Exercises: Advanced Edition (Checkmate Exercises for Improving Your Chess Skills)

1001 Checkmate Exercises: Advanced Edition (Checkmate Exercises for Improving Your Chess Skills)

Improve your game by studying 1001 all-new checkmate exercises! This book presents 1001 checkmate exercises from recent tournament games, and it is a sequel to my book 1001 Checkmate Exercises: Mastering An Essential Chess Skill (amazon.com/dp/B07BC9881W). The exercises in the current book are more advanced than the those in the previous book. Hence, the current book is aimed at players who have more experience in chess, and some of the later exercises will prove quite challenging for most club players. The large collection of exercises is complemented by a format that is also designed to improve the reader's visualisation skills. The book contains mate in 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 exercises. The mate in 1, 2, 3 and 4 exercises are split into two chapters for each mate. In the first chapter for the particular mate, the position is given just before the mate is possible, and the reader is required to find the mate. In the second chapter, the position is given before the losing move is made. The task is to visualise this move, and then to find the mate. The format of the book means that the level of visualisation required to solve the exercises increases by one half-move (or ply in computer chess terms) with each chapter. Hence, the exercises gradually extend the reader's visualisation skills, as well as improving checkmating skills. The goal of each exercise is to find the quickest mate. In some positions, there may be several moves that lead to checkmate, but the quickest mate is required. There is only one first move for each exercise that achieves this goal. Detailed solutions are provided for all the exercises, and they have been computer-checked by several strong chess engines for accuracy. The book will be a valuable resource for club and improving players, and it will give the reader many hours of instruction and entertainment. Buy your copy today and start winning more games! "I love using Sam's books for my students as the chapter puzzles are categorized by PLYs. This progression of difficulty allows a coach to see a student's Chess Vision Level and find the right type of Tactics to work with. My students are excited to do these as warm-up puzzles before I begin my Mini-Lessons." Mr. Jon Santos, Houston Chess Coach "Fun and good for speedrunning. You can never do too many checkmates." National Master Elijah Logozar, professional chess coach and author, on Chessable "I thought this was a well constructed collection of checkmate exercises that can benefit any student under master level who wishes to strengthen their calculation, visualization, and pattern recognition skills." backrankbrawler on Chessable "I would recommend this book to players from casual level to around 2000 FIDE." duntoria on Chessable "Lots of examples to train your pattern recognition. I recommend the book to anyone who wants to improve their pattern recognition and visualization skills, especially players under 1700 FIDE would benefit immensely." Tsubotai on Chessable "Good, fun and challenging." OneCoolGuy on Chessable