Desperate to brush up on your chess tactics but don't have time for long hours of study? This follow-up to Gary Lane's bestselling Improve Your Chess in 7 Days is the book for you! Handily arranged day by day, it is full of easy-to-follow advice on developing nifty tricks that will confound your opponent. It includes all the basic tactical skills such as pins, decoys, deflections and double attacks, then delves deeper, showing you how to harness them at various points of the game. It also contains a sprinkling of chess cartoons from the acclaimed illustrator Gerrard Oswald to keep you smiling as you read.

Packed with tips and tricks, this book's clear, no-nonsense style makes it the ideal companion for sharpening your tactics - quickly.

Content:
005 Introduction

007 Day 1 - So you want to improve your tactics?

036 Day 2 - Understanding tactics

065 Day 3 - How to develop your creativity

094 Day 4 - Tactics in the opening

125 Day 5 - Tactics in the middlegame

157 Day 6 - Tactics in the endgame

182 Day 7 - Blunders and brilliancies

212 Moving on

218 Glossary of chess terms