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FCP: Fundamental Chess Patterns 1-50, a handbook to improve your pattern recognition: Can you afford not to know them? (Chess manual)
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About FCP: Fundamental Chess Patterns 1-50, A Handbook To
It is not easy for beginners and intermediate players to learn how to play chess and improve their game. Instead of learning mainly through practice (which could take years) or the study of the games of Masters (difficult to understand and easily forgotten), this book presents a toolkit of weapons: essential patterns that are necessary to know in order to play well! What you need to know before reading this book:* How to use algebraic chess notation* The ability to visualize at least 4 plies without a board* Standard tactical devices, such as Counting, Forks, Skewers, Pins What you will learn in this book:* Basic patterns that every player must know* How to improve your game* How to use Opposition and Critical Squares* How to recognize the opportunity for simplification* And many other useful tips What you will NOT get, and why:* A complete analysis of each pattern, which would require up to 50 pages each. This is a handbook (where all you need is a position), not a manual (which explains all the ideas involved and how to discover the correct solution)* Capablanca: nobody can learn to play well merely from the study of a book, it can only serve as a guide, and the rest must be done by the teacher There is no limit to what is available to a chess student today: you can find gigabytes of books, software, and video - a jungle in which the student can go astray. But when a Knight checks your King in an endgame, do you know the best square to move your King to, in order to avoid being checked in the next four moves? "Click to look inside" to know. It is well known that strong players see a position broken down into elementary groups (chunks), each having specific, known characteristics. This is due to the huge number of games they have played, analyzed and retained in memory. As a result, they immediately recognize winning patterns.
