100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know

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Chess is 99% tactics. A tactical pattern is all about immediate threats that produce immediate results. Learning the 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know will dramatically improve your performance.

This book is the long-awaited middlegame companion to 100 Endgames You Must Know, the all-time bestseller of all chess books published by New In Chess. In three hundred pages, experienced chess trainer Frank Erwich teaches you all the tactical patterns that

• occur most frequently
• are easy to learn
• Explain ideas that are useful in practical games

You will get a huge amount of clear, concise and easy-to-follow chess tactics instruction, ideal for every post-beginner, club player and candidate master who wants to win more games.

Frank Erwich is a FIDE Master and an experienced chess trainer from the Netherlands. He holds a Master’s degree in Psychology. Frank is a book editor for New In Chess and has published the best-sellers: 1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players and 1001 Chess Exercises for Advanced Club Players.

Reviews

Sean Marsh (CHESS magazine)
“A companion volume, The 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know Workbook, is available too. Buy both of these excellent books, work hard on the examples, and in 2025, show the world how much of a tactical live wire you have become.”

Stephen Rees
“I’ve never seen tactics books organised in this way before - they are usually ‘here’s a bunch of pins’ - ‘here’s a bunch of forks’ - etc. But these books do it differently. They are organised by ‘piece patterns’ for a better way of putting it. As somebody who is precisely the target market for them, I think they are excellent - enjoyable and useful, and I think they would help many people like me (an adult learner who started playing chess a couple of years ago) who are trying to improve and enjoy the game even more.”

Neil Sullivan (Chess Book Collectors on Facebook)
"The book is written in a lively and pleasing manner. I feel it succeeds as both instruction and entertainment. Each theme is composed of several examples and can be read in 5-30 minutes each. Even for themes I felt I knew well, going through the examples was a delight."