ONE TACTIC CAN CHANGE THE ENTIRE GAME.

You can have a strong opening.

You can have the better position.

You can even be ahead in material.

Then one missed fork, hidden pin, tactical sacrifice, or checkmate pattern can turn everything upside down.

Chess Tactics Made Easy for Intermediate Players is a practical guide for players who already understand the basics of chess but want to start seeing the combinations that decide real games.

Instead of burying you in complicated grandmaster analysis, Viktor Solanski breaks tactical chess into clear patterns you can recognize, calculate, and use at the board.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Spot knight, pawn, bishop, rook, and queen forks
• Recognize absolute and relative pins
• Use skewers to expose valuable pieces
• Create devastating discovered attacks and double attacks
• Remove critical defenders before launching an attack
• Exploit overloaded pieces
• Use deflection, decoys, and interference
• Understand when a sacrifice is sound—and when it is just wishful thinking
• Recognize dangerous back-rank weaknesses
• Memorize practical checkmate patterns
• Combine multiple tactical ideas into winning sequences
• Calculate forcing moves more accurately
• Stop overlooking tactical opportunities during real games
• Defend against the same tactical weapons your opponents will try to use against you

This book focuses on the most important skill in tactical chess: seeing the weakness before calculating the winning move.

With clear explanations, practical positions, tactical diagrams, visual examples, and step-by-step training methods, you'll learn how stronger players recognize opportunities before their opponents even realize they're in danger.

If you know how the pieces move but still find yourself saying: “How did I miss that?” this book was written for you.

Spot the pattern. Calculate the move. Punish the mistake. Win more games.