1000 Checkmate Combinations

by Victor Henkin

Overview

This truly outstanding book, first published in Russian in the 1970s and regarded as a classic, contains everything you need to know about how to deliver checkmate.

1000 Checkmate Combinations contains a wealth of elegant and sophisticated chess tactics as well as systematic and effective instruction. Each chapter covers a different piece or combination of pieces that is able to deliver checkmate, and provides illustrative templates for just about every mating formation. By working through the book, readers will develop their ability to recognise the potential for checkmate, as well as the know-how to execute one.

Clearly written and beautifully organised, it will appeal to all chess players but particularly club players.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849947251
Publisher:	Rizzoli
Publication date:	02/03/2022
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.17(w) x 9.24(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

Victor Henkin is a well-respected Russian chess writer and Grandmaster. He is the co-author of Tal's Winning Chess Combinations: The Secrets of Winning Chess Combinations Described and Explained with former world champion Mikhail Tal.

Victor Henkin is a well-respected Russian chess writer and Grandmaster. He is the co-author of Tal's Winning Chess Combinations: The Secrets of Winning Chess Combinations Described and Explained with former world champion Mikhail Tal.

Table of Contents

Don't reinvent the bicycle Mikhail Tal 5

Before you open the book … 7

1 The Rook 10

2 The Bishop 35

3 The Queen 46

4 The Knight 68

5 The Pawn 88

6 Two Rooks 98

7 Rook and Bishop 127

8 Rook and Knight 160

9 Two Bishops 190

10 Two Knights 202

11 Bishop and Knight 214

12 Queen and Bishop 237

13 Queen and Knight 274

14 Three Pieces 296

15 Solutions 320