Great is the disappointment to the library patron who browses for a chess
instructional and finds only picked-over bones from the pre-Fischer, pre-Kasparov
eras. These books by a U.S. champion and a chess magazine editor offer something
more. A range of abilities, from novice to entrants in a local tournament, can
learn tactics and strategies that improve their play. The authors drop the
obsession with "book knowledge" about elaborate openings. More than 98 percent
of games, they say, turn on tactical dangers and opportunities about two moves
into the future, and for that distance of foresight, the Russian secrets the
authors share consist of a series of questions players must ask themselves after
each move. "Chessercizes," with hundreds of diagrams, provide practice for analyzing
attacking combinations and defenses against them, from opening through endgame,
making this a great contemporary resource. Including tips about computer programs

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