Download e-book for iPad: 1001 Deadly Checkmates by John Nunn

"A new e-book that i discovered delightfully attractive" - Bruce Pandolfini, www.chesscafe.com

For all chess-players, from rookies to international champions, from teenagers to seniors, supplying checkmate is the best thrill the sport has to provide. the power to identify checkmates is a crucial ability - and this easy-to-use e-book indicates you ways it's performed. With the aid of Grandmaster John Nunn, you can be able to surprise your subsequent opponent with a perilous checkmate, no matter if in a faculty fit, a membership event - or perhaps a championship game!

By focusing completely on positions from actual video games, starting from junior occasions to grandmaster encounters, Nunn guarantees that the associates featured are these which come up most of the time in actual lifestyles. He additionally highlights topics and concepts which are frequently ignored in perform. whereas fixing those puzzles, your all-important 'mental library' of styles will develop, resulting in an instantaneous raise on your taking part in strength.

All 1001 puzzle positions were conscientiously checked, and are graded by way of subject and trouble. issues are offered for locating the checkmate, so that you can degree your ability. lots of the puzzles are compatible for amateur and junior gamers. The final bankruptcy demanding situations you with 'extreme checkmates', yet don't fret: you can be prepared for them!

The Kindle variation of this publication has been especially reorganised for simple use. the answer to every puzzle is usually at the web page following the puzzle itself, and the puzzle diagram is repeated there, so it's not essential to turn forwards and backwards whilst viewing the solution.

Dr John Nunn is likely one of the best-respected figures in global chess, having numbered one of the world’s major grandmasters for almost two decades. He has gained 4 gold medals in chess Olympiads, and was once topped international Chess fixing Champion in 2004, 2007 and 2010. Nunn's taking part in variety is notoriously competitive, with sacrifices, king-hunts and checkmates that includes in lots of of his best wins.

"Recognizing styles has lengthy been well-known as one of many hallmarks of chess mastery and 1001 lethal Checkmates deals a sequence of routines to coach this ability prepared through subject matter and lengthening trouble. To problem these of a aggressive nature issues are provided for every right resolution with solvers capable of music their success." - IM John Donaldson, Gold-Medal successful united states crew Captain

"John Nunn, popular king-hunter, provides 1001 checkmate puzzles. gamers who learn this booklet will examine a lot approximately tactical motifs resulting in mate... a pleasant tome for any lover of chess" - Bab Wilders, Nederlands Dagblad

"...like a dinner party for me! The lengthy record of chess stars to be chanced on there contains thousands of avid gamers with whom i'm both rather well familiar, or not less than a little bit so, and it is a lot of enjoyable to aim to discover an analogous amazing strikes that they really performed on the climax of genuine battles. although the publication is kind of thick and heavy, weighing in at over three hundred huge pages, its content material is so relaxing and simply readable for me that my feeling whilst packing it in my summer time vacation suitcase is that i am taking alongside a mild but priceless companion." - GM Paul Motwani, The Scotsman