SCHOOL OF CHESS TACTICS - volume 1 (introduction and explanation written by Fide Master Paul Dobrinetsky) Dear friends! I would like to invite you into the Fairyland of Chess Kingdom! The school of chess tactics will help you to increase your level of chess playing. The more (the more efficient) you work the better results you obtain! If you have solved correctly: 100 puzzles - your tactical chess rating is 1200 (5 category) 200 puzzles - your tactical chess rating is 1400 (4 category) 400 puzzles - your tactical chess rating is 1600 (3 category) 600 puzzles - your tactical chess rating is 1800 (2"4 category) All the positions are single tasks and it is always white to move. Your task is to find the best solution - no matter if it is the mating final (attack) or gaining the decisive advantage. The author recommends solving systematically at least 6-12 chess puzzles. This way you can improve your tactical vision as much as calculation of variations! These skills should enable you play better and outplay your opponents with the use of tactics! Be careful and try to take advantage every time your opponent will give you the opportunity to do so! If you solve at least 100 (out of 102) chess puzzles correctly - it means you have won (passed) the pawn competition! If you solve 200 (out of 210) puzzles = you have won (passed) the bishop and knight competition, And finally if you solve 300 (out of 318) puzzles - you have won (passed) the rook competition! Congratulations! You are really very good at solving very simple and simple chess tactics puzzles! Good luck my hero! The book is directed especially to young players, coaches, trainers, instructors or parents. This chess puzzles book is recommended for players rated 1000-1600 May all your chess dreams come true in chess tournaments! Please notice that these puzzles are extremally useful for developing your chess intuition. Why? Because they contain Just the most necessary pieces for showing the specific tactical motifs (and ideas), It means there are many important ‘anduseful ideas included intoevery diagram. This wav vou are going fo recognize these specific patterns al many more different (unknown) positions! With some addtional excercises - You can trv fo sleer Your game into one of these positions fideas andmotifs and immortall!) and exploit the weaknesses to gainaa decisive advantage. The last step is to ‘conertitinto the mating final if tt haven’ finished this way.FM Paul Dobrinetsky - School of Chess Tactics (all volumes) and other chess puzzle books - explanation to the most often used symbols and their meaning There are some symbols used in the books: you should know their meaning: wy. Queen A#I1 - white to play Ll - white to play ¥ 2. King and mates in one move | and mates in one move B - Rook A#2 - black to play WH2 - black to play & and mates in two moves| and mates in two moves - Bishop Q_ Knight +/— - white wins /Mor A/A (whitehasgot/hasgained | ~ white/black to move a decisive advantage) A pawn > W+H8 > - a Queen attacks |, Queen and Rook attack > B-Rookattacks |> B+ - Rook and Bishop attack > &. Bishop attacks ; >0-0 [2] 24. Knight attacks | attack on the castled King position Good luck - let the Caissa provide > & - Pawn attacks you a joy ofchess and a lot ofsuccess!a bcdefgh abcde fgh Oo abecdefgh abecdefgh abecdefgh abcde fgh