Chess tactics

Good afternoon (my time) to everyone!

I recently ordered two chess books for our learners (especially the juniors) written by Garry Kasparov - Checkmate! My first chess book and Checkmate tactics. In the last week, I paged through them and had a very interesting read.  I can really recommend parents buying these books for your children to read through with them.

While I was reading and paging through the books, I just thought of the blog and that I must share some of the tactics that I found in the books.  Some of them I have put up on the blog already, but that was almost 6 months ago!

Here are the links to those posts, click on them, go through them before you scroll down to the next post. Click on each word, it won't open in a new window, so be sure to press the 'back' button to come back to this post.

The Fork

The Pin

The Skewer

In the post below this one, I will have more and better examples of each of these, and I will include a section where you have to sacrifice a valuable piece to gain advantage or even win the match later.

Enjoy!

:-)