Killer Moves

If you occupy yourself with chess - study games, variations, endgames etc. - you store a lot of pictures in your memory, both consciously and subconsciously. The more of these you can retrieve during a game, the better you play. Of course, there are many additional factors that determine your success in practice, but still the learning of pictures (patterns) and motifs is the essential requirement for good chess. And the most effective method of building up your personal stockpile of winning patterns is to study tactical positions and combinatory motifs. George Renko, mathematician and chess trainer, has compiled a huge number of tactical sample positions.

George Renko develops the theme of Killer Moves - multipurpose moves usually forcing an immediate decision. The nine databases(!) are split up according to difficulty and contain about 1,600 tasks, some from compositions and some from practical games. During this training course the author doesn't dwell on lengthy explanations, in keeping with the motto "a picture is worth a thousand words".