Improve Your Chess Tactics 700 Practical Lessons & Exercises by Yakov Neishtadt

Neishtadt’s brilliant Improve Your Chess Tactics has been a big hit on Chessable – and now it comes with an optional video upgrade.

IM Lorin D’Costa, the England women’s Chess Olympiad coach, and his trusty sidekick Nick Murphy from New in Chess have teamed up to bring you nearly 5 hours of instruction alongside the course.

Let Lorin and Nick take you through the key themes as they bring this chess classic to life in a way never attempted before.

Learn to calculate properly

Using the motifs Neishtadt presents here, Lorin’s guidance will help you practise those all-important calculation techniques you need to nail game-winning tactics over the board.

Meanwhile, Nick provides the voice of the keen amateur trying to learn and get the best out of Lorin’s master-level coaching.

The pair explain and demonstrate in detail all the themes contained in this classic text in a simple and straight forward way that players of all levels can understand.

Sharpen those tactical weapons

Neishtadt’s classic text – adapted here with MoveTrainer® – is all about honing your tactical skills to perfection.

Why? Simply because the vast majority of amateur games are decided through tactics you will immediately start beating more opponents when you master them.

Experienced Russian master Jakov Neishtadt has selected those examples from the games of masters that have the biggest instructional value for club players.

In the first part Neishstadt teaches a systematic course on the most important tactical themes.

The second part consist of an exam with hundreds of tests from real-life chess, in random order so as not to give unwelcome hints on how to solve them. The solutions are not just lists of moves, but include instructive prose.

Martin Eden, SoloSchacchi:
I challenge every body to show me that after careful study of this fantastic book he has not be come at least a Candidate Master.

Daniel King, the Guardian:
The last section is a giant examination of 356 positions where themes are mixed – so it’s a truer test of your skill. Solutions are carefully explained and the layout is clean, generous and attractive.

Max Euwe Centre, Amsterdam:
After you have worked your way through this book and learned a lot, you will be a crack tactician.

Alexander Nikitin, Garry Kasparov’s coach:
A great book!
E. Carl, Europa Rochade Magazine:
A high-level tactics manual for quite a friendly price.

Paul Motwani, The Scotsman:
Superb.

Joe Petrolito, Australasian Chess Magazine:
An excellent feature of the book is the extensive coverage of combined tactical themes.

Richard Vedder, Schakers.info:
Excellent training material for those who want to improve their tactical abilities. My personal favorites are the ‘Miracle Saves’.

Marshtower Chess Reviews:
It’s a great collection, featuring positions from every phase of the game and set out very nicely by New In Chess.