Learn Chess the Right Way: Book 2: Winning Material
Former world champion and award-winning coach Susan Polgar designed Learn Chess the Right Way, a series of five puzzle books, for players at the novice, beginner or intermediate stage. Across the series it teaches the essential tactics for mating the king and winning material, together with the defensive skills every new player needs, in volumes of 500 puzzles each.The second book turns from checkmate to winning material. In the first six chapters one specific piece makes the capture each time — the queen, then the rook, and so on, ending with the king. Chapter 7 mixes them up, so you must work out for yourself which piece should move. Chapters 8 to 12 introduce the classic tactical weapons one by one: removing the guard, forks and double attacks, pins, skewers, and discovered attacks. Chapter 13 brings everything together, asking you to choose the right pattern on your own, with ideas such as trapping a piece and the intermediate move added to the mix.Polgar draws on more than forty years at the very top as both player and trainer, and her step-by-step approach is designed so that these material-winning motifs become second nature.About the AuthorSusan Polgar, the leading woman player in the United States, is a four-time winner of Women’s World Championships. At 15 she became the highest-rated woman in the world, and she remained among the top three for over two decades. Recognition as a coach followed: U.S. Coach of the Year in 2013, then FIDE Trainer of the Year in 2014 — no one before her had received both honours. Under her direction, the SPICE programs at Texas Tech and Webster University have collected five straight national Division I collegiate titles.