Chess Training Pocket Book II: How to spot tactics and how far ahead to calculate gives you the knowledge and training you need to become a master-strength player. It will test, train, and sharpen your thinking skills. Each carefully chosen position offers a crucial building block in your chess knowledge.

Chess Training Pocket Book II is a sequel to the best-selling Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions and Ideas. In the same tradition, this follow-up volume will save you years of hit-and-miss reading and sporadic improvement because it gathers together for you the crucial, game-winning knowledge in one easy-to-carry book.

004 Foreword

008 Chess Notation

010 Chess Symbols

011 Chapter One: Getting the most from this book

029 Chapter Two: Tactics: the dirty dozen

033 Chapter Three: The 320 key positions

194 Chess Clubs & Chess Eqipment

196 Index of Games

200 Index of Themes