Improve Your Chess Tactics - The Upgraded 2024 edition (Hardcover)

Improve Your Chess Tactics - The Upgraded 2024 Edition by Yakov Neishtadt is an English-language hardcover chess book built around practical tactical training from real tournament games. This upgraded 2024 edition combines a structured course in tactical motifs with a large exercise section, making it a focused study book for players who want to sharpen their tactical play.

Neishtadt presents more than 700 decisive combinations from tournament practice, giving the book a strong training focus. The material is organised so you can work through the main tactical themes first and then test yourself with a larger set of exercises based on authentic game situations.

What’s inside

The book is divided into two clear parts. The first is a systematic course that introduces the key tactical motifs you need to recognise over the board. The second is a test-style section with hundreds of exercises in random order, so you have to identify the right idea without clues from the chapter structure. That makes the training feel closer to a real game, where the pattern has to be found for yourself.

The solutions are designed to do more than simply show the moves. They explain why a combination works and help you understand the tactical idea behind it, so you can learn from each position rather than just check the answer.

Who it’s for

This is a strong choice for club players, ambitious amateurs and anyone who wants to train tactics from real game material. It works well as a self-study course, as a source of daily chess exercises, or as a book you return to regularly during training. The hardcover binding also makes it practical for repeated use.

For more tactical study, you may also want to look at other chess books in our range.

Key details

• Product type: hardcover chess book
• Author: Yakov Neishtadt
• Language: English
• Edition: Upgraded 2024 edition
• Content: systematic course in tactical motifs and a large exercise section based on real tournament games
• Combinations: more than 700 decisive combinations
• Binding: hardcover
• Pages: 392