Description: Learn chess tactics taught in plain English; the most complete body of instruction on the subject yet written.
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This site has two parts.
1. The first part is a book that explains chess tactics (in other words, how to make winning moves). It assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. Everything is explained progressively and in plain English. You can read it by clicking anyplace in the table of contents below. The headings can be expanded one at a time by clicking on the [+] signs, or click here to expand all of them at once. (And then you can click here to collapse them all at once.) There are 20 chapters, about 200 topics within them, and o
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