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Dr Volker Schlepütz is said to be an ambitious amateur player and a member of the Sportfreunde Katernberg chess club in Essen, Germany, who owns a school chess license and has experience in chess coaching. Grandmaster John Emms probably needs no introduction as he is a well-known author, experienced chess coach, and Everyman editor. The solutions explain how and why the tactics would have worked and award points for correct answers. Once you have completed this, you can compare your answer to the those provided in the solutions sections. This exercise gives you a second chance to spot any tactics you may have overlooked in Exercise 1. After each move by Black, decide whether Black’s move misses a tactic in his favour or overlooks tactic against himself. Restart the game and run through it a second time, now from Black’s viewpoint. If White’s move failed to meet a tactical threat by Black, suggest alternative moves for White which would prevent the tactic. In this case write down the relevant variations and assess the final outcome (for example, a material gain of at least a pawn). In this case, go on to the next pair of moves and repeat your evaluation.ī) White’s move misses a tactic in his favour, or allows a favourable tactic for Black, or both. After each move by White, decide whether White’s move misses an opportunity for a tactic in his favour, or overlooks a tactic against himself.Ī) There was no possible tactic, either in White’s favour or against White. So instead of offering the typical side-to-move-and-win puzzle, the approach here is to present the bare score of a game fragment, up to the point where continuing is no longer useful for training purposes, and challenge the reader to find any missed tactical motif by either side.įor the games in each section the reader is asked to do the following exercises: They call itassumingthe role of a tactics detective. Let me explain: in The Chess Tactics Detection Workbook, Dr Volker Schlepütz and Grandmaster John Emms present selected games from beginnersto club level players where the reader is asked tolookfor mistakes ormissed opportunities by both sides. In fact, we are expected to supply the annotations ourselves as well. Now we are being asked to examine non-annotated non-master games. It used to be that we were entreated to study well-annotated master games as a means to improvement. The Chess Tactics Detection Workbook, by Volker Schlepütz and John Emms, Everyman Chess 2015, Paperback, 256pp. Alphabetical Checkpoint and ChessBase Cafe.