Good chess tactics books to add to here?

It's not a pure tactics book, but perhaps Practical Chess Exercises by Ray Cheng?  IM Watson does the foreword and Heisman is on the back cover, so I'm not the only fan.  Nice collection btw...

Probably better to buy used or on Kindle...

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Oh shoot; nevermind...You have the 5334 already.  My bad.

You dont need to buy puzzle books these days.

Thanks to powerful engines, you can get puzzles from your games within a few seconds.

Improving missed tactics from your own game is much better than other people's game.

It was actually drmboss who suggested it, but I'll go ahead and answer.  As a diamond member, you get it automatically every time you analyze a game.  I was going to suggest going through your archive of played games, but it looks like you haven't played any.  That's OK, it works on Play the Computer games too, although since they're not saved you have to do it right after the game.  Basically your worst 3 moves are picked out and you get to choose something else.  I copy/pasted where it's found for you.  Have fun! (It's actually a horizontal list...)

all tactic books are in essence the same. if u can find one that has different chapters for different types of tactics, thats great for a deep understanding of a each type. books with mixed puzzles quickly improve overall tactical pattern recognition

Missing are 3 of my favorite tactics books :

    Back to Basics : Tactics by Heisman       ( beginner )

    A to Z Chess Tactics by Huczek            ( intermediate )

    Understanding Chess Tactics by Weteschnik  ( advanced but limited in scope )

1517loft , you don't need an engine to produce puzzles.   I save any fascinating ones I find,  such as the problem of the day on various websites. Save them as a FEN string in a .txt file.

When I've accumulated 50 or more I put them in a .pgn file and save to my phone & tablet.

View the problems with iChess or any of a number of inexpensive apps.  Over the years I've accumulated about a thousand.  Also have added positions from my games, as baddogno suggested. All you need are a free text processor, such as Notepad++, and any interface to view the pgn file.

Hello everyone,

I wanted to share with you a nice resource for chess tactics and mating patterns by Ward Farnsworth who is the author of two books about this topic. He made the content of these books publicly available. There are two parts:

Part 1: Theoretical Section: https://www.chesstactics.org/

Each chapter covers one tactical motif. He also shows different variations of the same motif in each chapter. (Double Attack, Discovered Attack, Pin/Skewer, Removing the Guard, Mating Patterns)

Part 2: Practical Section: http://www.chessproblems.org/

In Part 2 you can practice what you've learnt in part 1. The chapters are organized in the same way as in Part 1 (Double attack, Discovered attack ...). In each chapter you will find exercises to solve.

If you don't want to only practice one single tactical motif you can click on "Random Position" and you'll get a random one from the above mentioned chapters. If someone needs an intro to tactical motifs and mating matterns, then this website is a good way to start.

What I really like about this website is, that it's not just a bunch of exercises without any structure. You get a lot of explanations and examples for every tactical motif and at the same time you have enough exercises to apply what you've learnt.

The navigation on that site can be a little tricky, but you'll get used to it. (You go to the next page by clicking on the arrow at the bottom. I didn't notice it at first.

Have a nice day everyone and stay tactically sharp!

Surely "Perfect your chess" could nicely complete your collection

Perfect your Chess is quite an advanced book.

Very much so but it's also quite fun (I recall the chapter inviting people to find a move without calculating too much to create a vision and the example were often spectacular). I also see he has extreme chess tactics and imagination in chess who are also quite challenging

Practical Chess Beauty by the same author that wrote Extreme Chess Tactics.

Fred Reinfeld's 2 old books on 1001 checkmates and 1001 sacrifices and combinations.

365 Ways to Checkmate is quite fun as well

What do you mean by vision? I only know pattern recognition which means that we can quickly identify the tactical and positional features of a position. What do you mean by vision? Is it the same?

Vision is a combination of things.

1) Can you find candidate moves quickly.  Are you quick to find candidates that entail hanging a piece or moving a pawn to an attacked square?  Or are you of the "piece is attacked, must move piece" mentality.  If you are the latter, you have poor vision.

2) When you consider a move, and calculate 5 moves deep, do you just see the fork at the end of it?  Or do you mentally see the entire position and realize the whole thing fails because of a checkmate your opponent has after you take the forked piece?  If you cannot see the whole board and only see the fork tactic, you have poor vision.

3) Can you solve the following chess problem WITHOUT using a board?  You cannot draw a board either.  All you can use is your brain and look at the below list of pieces and squares they are currently sitting on.

W: Kg1, Qa3, Re1, Nc7, Pa2, Pb2, Pf2, Pg2, Ph2

B: Kg8, Qc2, Rf8, Bd8, Pa7, Pb7, Pf7, Pg7, Ph7

White to move!

The problem itself is not hard at all, but can you figure it out without using a board?  If you can't, you have poor vision.

Hope this better explains to you the concept of vision.

Oh thank you thriller fan, I will try this chess problem.

I think there was a visualization exercise a while ago by Danny Rensch who tried to move a knight around blindfolded without touching the squares that were controlled by a randomly placed queens.

Half Price books (hpb.com) seems to have a new copy for $21.86.