Looking for Trouble
Recognizing and Meeting Threats in Chess
3rd Edition
Published on 16. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-949859-83-6 (ISBN)
Description
Identify and Deal with Threats!
This book is written to address and underemphasized area of chess training and study, the identification of and reaction to threats.
For beginning and intermediate-level players, the study of tactics is paramount. Almost all tactics books take the approach of providing a position where there is a forced win, checkmate, or draw.
However Looking for Trouble - now in a revised and enlarged third edition - takes a different tack. It helps you to recognize threats by providing over 300 problems in which you focus on identifying and meeting threats in the opening, middlegame and endgame. The author's clear explanations are presented in a manner that should greatly benefit players of all levels.
This book is written to address and underemphasized area of chess training and study, the identification of and reaction to threats.
For beginning and intermediate-level players, the study of tactics is paramount. Almost all tactics books take the approach of providing a position where there is a forced win, checkmate, or draw.
However Looking for Trouble - now in a revised and enlarged third edition - takes a different tack. It helps you to recognize threats by providing over 300 problems in which you focus on identifying and meeting threats in the opening, middlegame and endgame. The author's clear explanations are presented in a manner that should greatly benefit players of all levels.
More details
Edition
3rd Revised ed.
Language
English
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-949859-83-6 (9781949859836)
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Person
National Master Dan Heisman is a chess writer and professional chess instructor in the Philadelphia area. His best-selling chess books include Elements of Positional Evaluation and Back to Basics: Tactics.