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***WINNER*** 2016 Chess Journalists of America "Best Book: Instruction" !!
An instructive and comprehensive puzzle book now available in e-format via the mobile app Forward Chess, and you can order hard copies via Amazon. |
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Far more amateur games are lost because a player makes an unsafe move, rather than missing a tactic given by the opponent or making a fatal positional mistake.
This book is for intermediates and up (1400+) - puzzles ask if various candidate moves are safe. Includes basic instructive examples up through extremely difficult, "grey" answers. Many general safety issues are discussed in detail. A multitude of general safety guidelines are highlighted and explained.
Is Your Move Safe? is a "cousin" book to Looking for Trouble, but this in no way implies you need one book to benefit from the other. Looking asks the reader to identify and deal with threats from the opponent's previous move. Is Your Move Safe, on the other hand, looks at safety from the view of analyzing your own candidate moves to see if they are safe.
Check out Pete Tamburro's comments at ArcaMax ("...a great new book by popular chess teacher Dan Heisman...")
Joan Goñalons tweeted: @danheisman "Is your move safe?", great, great stuff in it. It has made me totally humble.
My Chess.com article on the release of the book
This book is for intermediates and up (1400+) - puzzles ask if various candidate moves are safe. Includes basic instructive examples up through extremely difficult, "grey" answers. Many general safety issues are discussed in detail. A multitude of general safety guidelines are highlighted and explained.
Is Your Move Safe? is a "cousin" book to Looking for Trouble, but this in no way implies you need one book to benefit from the other. Looking asks the reader to identify and deal with threats from the opponent's previous move. Is Your Move Safe, on the other hand, looks at safety from the view of analyzing your own candidate moves to see if they are safe.
Check out Pete Tamburro's comments at ArcaMax ("...a great new book by popular chess teacher Dan Heisman...")
Joan Goñalons tweeted: @danheisman "Is your move safe?", great, great stuff in it. It has made me totally humble.
My Chess.com article on the release of the book