Gambiteer 1 & 2: A Hard-hitting Chess Opening Repertoire for White & Black (K-5268)

Compilation of the following three titles:

- First Challenge

- Master Challenge

- Grandmaster Challenge

Is the ability to make combinations something that you are born with or can be acquired by practice? Russian chess trainer Livshitz, who has had extensive experience teaching a wide range of players from novices to masters, presents here a course for developing your combinational skill, based on the recognition of tactical motifs. As you work your way through this carefully graded series of tests, themes such as ‘diversion’, ‘interference’, ‘X-Ray’ and many more will become an integral part of your chess armoury, to be employed in your own games. Solving these positions will not only provide many hours of pleasure but will also enable you to test- and improve! – your chess IQ.

These three books are now published in one volume, carefully graduated in order of difficulty.

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First Challenge:

vi Editor's Note

vii Introduction

001 Tests 1 - 56

117 Progress Chart

119 Index of Players

Master Challenge:

vii Introduction

001 Tests 1-56

115 Progress Chart

117 Index of Players

Grandmaster Challenge:

vii Introduction

Combinational Themes:

001 Double Attack

003 Discovered Attack

005 Discovered Check

007 Pin

011 Diversion

019 Decoy

023 Interference

025 Defence-elimination

029 Square-vacation

031 Line-opening

041 Utilization of open files

043 Diagonal-opening

051 Utilization of open diagonals

053 Smothered mate

055 Blocking

055 X-ray

055 Overloading

059 Exploiting a back rank weakness

065 Weakness of the second rank

067 Intermediate move

067 Creation and utilization of passed pawns

075 Breakthrough

077 Simplifying combinations

081 Drawing combinations

085 Traps

089 Attack on the kingside castled position

097 Attack on the king caught in the centre

103 Destructive combinations

127 Index of Players