Back to basics: Tactic by Dan Heisman

Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun! This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about and benefiting from the recurring patterns of tactics. In chess, if you lose all your pieces you cant win! And if you capture each of your opponents pieces, winning should be easy. Even if you just get ahead by a small amount of material, your chances of winning soar. The way to win your opponents pieces is through the use of tactics. This book is about all types of beginning tactics. The author covers comprehensively the subject with basic instructional material, examples, and problems of all types about 500 examples and problems ranging from too easy to very difficult! Back to Basics: Tactics - the first in the ChessCafe Back to Basics Chess Series should enhances your enjoyment in learning about and benefiting from the recurring patterns of tactics.