Tactics books recommendations?

Do you have a favorite book on tactics you like for club-level players?

Polgars massive book.

Winning Chess

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Uuh... what's the point of a tactics books these days? There are (free) sites with thousands of puzzles that adjust the difficulty according to your performance.

Nothing beats a good old fashioned book.  Besides that, active learning is better than passive leanring.

Yes, and most of them are rubbish because they don't teach concepts.  They may be okay for practice once you understand the concepts, but as teaching tools they are virtually worthless.  The same can be said for understanding checkmating patterns.

There are more tactical concepts covered in Improve Your Chess Tactics: 700 Practical Lessons & Exercises by Yakov Neishtadt and basic patterns in The Art of Checkmate by Georges Renaud and Victor Kahn than you'll ever find on websites with tactics and combination generators.

One obvious advantage is that for example in Chessable he will not only solve tactics randomly, but you will review your knowledge in increasing time increments rather than regularly. It means, the tool will prompts you to review material in an efficient manner. Get the chess move right, and you won't see it for a while. Get it wrong, you had probably forgotten the motive, so you will see it again soon. This is the "lazy" way how to learn. You can of course take a book with 3000 exercises and go over and over again through the whole book, but for this you need much more discipline and it is difficult to say motivated. The most important thing: this is not efficient, as you will repeat all the exercises with the same regularity, although several of these exercises are already known and should be only repeated after a longer period of time. 

Totally disagree with those slating books here. To my mind, tactics training should be as close to playing tournament games as possible, so when you're working on your tactics, set up the position on a board and start the clock to time yourself. Preferably do a session of anything between 0.5 to 2.5 hours (all depending on the number of positions and the level difficulty), working with great focus.

Depending on your level, and whether you're seeking a tactics book which is pure exercices or one with verbose explanations of concepts, you should look for different books. As fightingbob says Neishtadt's 'Improve Your Chess Tactics: 700 Practical Lessons & Exercices' is a great book for teaching both concepts and the exercises themselves, as is GWTR's suggestion of IA Horowitz' 'Winning Chess' (Tactics Illustrated). For lower level, the Fred Reinfeld two '1001' books are great, especially since about 10 per cent of the positions are actually (inadvertent) duds - so further good traning to see you if you can spot them.

All this said, the best tactics books by far (once you've mastered various concepts) are the books by Maksim Blokh, 'Combinative Motifs' and 'Combinational Art' (originally published as 'The Art of Combination'). In total you have some 2,400 positions, nearly of which have solutions for both Black and White. They're orded by theme/motif, and by increasing difficulty (on a scale from 1 to 12) on each page. It should also pointed out that in 'Combinatinative Art', Blokh has actually constructed most of the positions himself, so many of them are likely to be new and original for the solver.

torrubirubi: Tactics should constantly be repeated! That's one of the main points of working on tactics: pattern recognition. You should both strive to find new material which challenges you and expands your combinational vision, as well as going over old ground again and again to reinforce your current knowledge.

I agree with you, but the question is: how to repeat? With spaced repetition you will be able to focus more on things that you didn't memorise well. I learned some languages using spaced repetition, this is just more efficient than just repeating regularly all exercises, even those who you already know well. Abração para o Brasil. (sou brasileiro tbm, mas vivo na Suiça desde 1988).

^ I think spaced repetition is only good for memorization, not reasoning per se... Good for languages, not for tactics. By the way, I think it's very beautiful. So many language learners in this website. I love that!

You are right, spaced repetition is only for memorisation. But I am doing this training with enough books (three different, with a total of 1250 exercises). Probably I will include more exercises. Sometimes I also train a little with TT in chess.com or with one of my books, but the main training (something like 4o minutes to 3 hours per day) is using spaced repetition.

What I can see is after some weeks of spaced repetition I go to TT and get much more points simply because I know already the ideas. 

I worked with one of them, but didn't go further than chapter one or two. But the exercises are good, no question.

 I got the Improve Your Chess Tactics: 700 Practical Lessons & Exercises by Yakov Neishtadt because I can go over the puzzles on my iPad and the book had very good ratings. I like how this book is setup. First he teaches by theme, then the second half of the book's puzzles are theme-less and for you to figure out--like a chess game. Liking this book a lot so far.

Chesstempo is enough