Polgar's Book
I've decided to take a rest from TCT and start working with Polgar's Book. I'm right now at the "mate in two" part of the book, currently at problem 400.
The "mate in one" were all so easy that I could do most of them without thinking, but some "mate in two" are quiete challenging, specially the ones where the enemy kings lies in the middle of the board.
I don't know how it relates to the tactics I was training earlier, like forks, skewers, double attacks etc, but that's certainly helping me, and I could almost say they are helping more than the ones I was doing earlier. Working with this mate problems is very different cause I know what to look for, and thus I can consider less candidate moves, and work deeper on the variants. I think that's really improving my calculating abilities.
posted by knightwiz @ 18:05
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4 Comments:
The mate-in-one problems are very trivial and beneficial to do repetitively. The mate-in-two problems upto ~1600 are easy. The 1600+ problems get challenging (takes a few minutes to work out). Anyways, good luck :)
What book is this?
5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games
by Laszlo Polgar
I think this book has helped train me to focus on the fields around pieces much more, as well as building a repertoire of sacrifices and other weird looking moves that lead to mate.
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