Progressive Tactics: 1002 Progressively Challenging Chess Tactics Kindle Edition

One of the best and most useful chess books I have read. The strength of this book lies in the fact that the tactical solutions are clearly explained, with an arrow pointing out the move of the solution. The clarity of the book and the applicability of the tactics make this book an excellent addition to chess books. These strengths make this book stand out from other books and tactics, and is an incredible value, considering what is gained by close study. The author includes in the solutions, the games and dates from which the tactics are derived, along with the ELO of both players. In his introduction, the author recommends 30 minutes a day studying these tactical positions, and once I got started, I had studied over 50 positions before I realized it. I believe that this book should be the standard for instructional chess books.

It seems that the author did an excellent job of making sure the answers to the various chess puzzles are correct. Some of the puzzles I found quite easy and some quite difficult. Overall, I really like this book.

A collection of chess puzzles selected from the author's own games. They progress from trivial to very hard, which is useful for assessing your level of tactical ability as well as providing at least a few hundred puzzles for any level player between about 800 and 1500 rating. The feature that I liked the most was that the objective in each puzzle is not stated, rather left as part of the problem as it would be in an actual game. Most mid-level players may find this feature eye-opening as we often forget to search for tactics in a position. The book is well-edited but I found the commentary to be a bit thin at times.

I recently discovered another chess book, which may, in the end, prove one of the most beneficial in my Kindle chess library.It’s called “Progressive Tactics: 1002 Progressively Challenging Chess Tactics” by Dave Couture. The concept behind the book is simple but effective: Couture presents a series of chess problems of increasing complexity and difficulty for readers to study and analyze. On one page, the problem appears in a chess diagram with a simple instruction like: “White [or Black] to move,” with no other explanation. On the page following each problem, readers will find a diagram showing the best solution to the problem. There’s an arrow on the diagram showing the move, and a brief, easy-to-understand explanation for the move and why it is best.In his introduction, Dave Couture recommends using the book for about 15 to 20 minutes per day for a couple of months. He believes that readers who do this will begin to see an improvement in their overall chess playing skills automatically, “without making any special effort in… [their] games.” I’ve tried Couture’s suggestion, and it seems to work. In the same way Couture saw his chess Elo rating improve by about 10 percent from studying tactics, I have also seen my Elo rating increase by a similar amount (from about 1200) because of using his book.“Progressive Tactics” ranks among the better-formatted Kindle chess books I’ve found. The layout is simple. The diagrams are clear and colorful; however, they are a bit undersized for my 60-plus year-old eyes. This is a minor complaint that I hope Couture will address in future editions. Increasing the size of the diagrams – by even a moderate amount – in Kindle editions would be a great benefit to readers (like me) with less than perfect vision.I think “Progressive Tactics” is one of the best, most useful “Kindle-ized” chess books I’ve found in a long time. Highly recommended. (4½ Stars ^ 5)

Nice tactical puzzle book. This book is a great book for anyone looking to get out of the 1200-1400 USCF level. I have many chess book and puzzles book and many of them are based on GM games. Which is nice, but coffee house chess where many are not GM dont make perfect moves and leave a lot of tactical possibilities if you can spot them. This book is based on weaker opponent games so there are tactical abilities in them that more likely to come up in your games if you play a lot of coffee shop chess. This book wont make you a GM or a 2000 rated player but can help you get to 1800 on a consistent level. What works well with this book is to go through it, it start off easy and the gets harder. Find the pages where you are finding them get difficult and mark that page. From that point on study about 300 and go back and do them again. Do them until you can solve the puzzles all 300 in half an hour. Repition is key once you do that then do another 300 and repeat. If you are stuck in the 1200-1400 level you will start to notice an improvement fast and you will spot them in your own games fast. Great book

I think this book is one of the best tactic training books there is on the market. I believe Dave is a great chess player that shows in both of his books. I also want mention that he uses great strategy in his games. As as an author and a player. I believe he would make great coach/ trainer. He has good games and challenges all opponents with a chance to win , lose or draw charisma that all us chess players have in us that no matter the circumstances are up for the challenge. This is a great book and I appreciate Dave Couture and Amazon for the book. Another treasure for my collection. All the work that went into this book has an excellent finished product and I highly recommend getting this book. This book I give 5 stars and I give the author Dave Couture 5 stars. This is a must have tactics book that I believe should not only be put in your kindle but this is a must read book. This is a good back and you will learn and improve your chess games and improve your sense of knowing the chessboard.

I have found this book to be very useful, so much so this is the second copy I've purchased. I wore out the first one because I brought it everywhere. I especially like the fact that the puzzles are NOT grouped by theme....you must look at each one separately and just figure out the best move! This book is well worth having, and it will be a great addition to your chess library that you actually use!

I stopped playing chess online because it is literally the same thing as sniffing cocaine, but this chess book have been relaxing and non-addictive.I was reading with dim lights and fell asleep within half an hour.I choose books based on how nice the cover looks and I love the cover.Would be nice to mix in trick puzzles, such as tactics that don't actually work because of counterplay and whatnot. This is a blind spot for many of my games.

Ótimo!

Enjoyed a ton this book on my kindle. Graphics are crisp, explanation are easy to read, difficulty is indeed progressive so if you're more around 1500-1700 you can skip the 600 first and still have a ton to work on. Highly recommended

Thank you.

初心者から中級者レベルの問題をノーヒントでひたすら解いていくトレーニング本でありタクティクス別に分類されているわけではないのでどのタクティクスを使うかは実戦同様考える必要がある。どちらかというとChess.comやlichessのタクティクストレーニングに近いかもしれない。説明は英語だが解答と変化は太字の符号で記されているので英語が苦手な人でも問題なし。ただこれからチェスを始めようとしている入門者はタクティクスの解説付きで項目別に問題が分けられている、初心者向けのチェス魔法の戦術や1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners、3手読んで勝つ戦術などをこなして基礎を固めてからから本書に取り掛かったほうが良いと思う。そうするとやはり中級者向けかな。