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    Winning Chess Traps: Opening Tactics for the Advanced Beginner and Intermediate Player (Chess for Everyone Series) by Robert M. Snyder

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    Synopsis

    In Winning Chess Traps nationally-renowned chess coach Robert M. Snyder takes his Chess for Everyone book a step further by covering sixty-four additional opening traps.

    • Traps arranged by opening to help students improve knowledge of the most important openings.
    • Traps contain important tactical themes designed to improve pattern recognition.
    • Challenge at various points to find the best move.
    • Written for the beginner to intermediate player.

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    Winning Chess Traps: Opening Tactics for the Advanced Beginner and Intermediate Player (Chess for Evby Anonymous

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    September 19, 2008: I am also one that feels this book provides a most efficient way to learn the ideas behind the openings and tactics at the same time. Why not? If you are going to study tactics then why not learn how they directly relate to specific openings? Kill two birds with one stone! The traps are arranged by type of opening. But I recommend you simply start at the beginning and go through the entire book. The contents in the front of the book will provide with the index hinting at what kind of trap is in each type of opening should you want to study a specific opening. Each of the sixty-four main traps (with many other traps falling within these ones too) contains solid analysis. It is clearly shown in each case what should have been done when an error is made and there is a brief analysis of main alternative opening lines (where important). The analysis is solid. Compared to any other book on chess traps this book wins hands down (and it certainly ranks among the best books ever written on tactics period).

    Winning Chess Traps: Opening Tactics for the Advanced Beginner and Intermediate Player (Chess for Evby Anonymous

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    September 18, 2008: This is one of the best ways to learn about openings. Because the material in this book is arranged by opening it is easy to look up or focus on any specific opening at any one time. The ideas behind the critical moves in each opening is pointed out. There are a lot more traps than just the 64 main examples. Within each trap there are more traps explained. So in reality you are getting hundreds of examples! This trap book clearly points out where the strong moves and weak moves were made and shows you what should have been done in place of an error. Using a strong computer program to go over the traps showed me that this book has accurate analysis too. I noted that my other book on traps had numerous mistakes in analysis, but Winning Chess Traps was always right on! Obviously, the analysis was carefully checked. In addition to learning about openings, and for some individuals perhaps more important, are the tactics to be learned. Forks, Pins, Skewers, Discovered Attacks, Building & Planning Attacks 'and defence', Overworked Defenders and many more tactics are included. To see these in action from practical examples and within the openings that you are likely to come across is what makes this book different from tactical problem books 'that start off point blank with the critical position instead of showning how that position was reached'. I am not recommending that you get this book to try and set up 'traps' with 'inferior moves' 'cheapo chess'. That is not what this book is about. It is a book that points out where the traps are and teaches you the 'correct' moves in the openings and where the important tactics are.


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