In short: an advanced club player should expect the unexpected. Quiet moves in general should be your new best friends. In variations that look forcing you will always search for that deadly Zwischenzug.

They are geared towards the reality of the advanced club player (Elo 1800 – 2300): it is not enough to spot simple combinations, at this level you must be able to resist your reflexes and look deeper. He also introduces new, more sophisticated tactical weapons.

In this follow-up to his acclaimed 1001 Chess Exercise for Club Players, FIDE Master Frank Erwich teaches you how to reach the next level of identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, recognizing patterns of combinations, visualizing tricks and calculating effectively.Įrwich repeats the themes of his previous book, focusing on exercises in which the key move is less obvious.