Understanding Chess Tactics `Chess is 99% tactics’ is an old saying. This may be an exaggeration, but even the remaining 1% still depends on tactics. When Martin Weteschnik started working as a trainer in his local chess club, he quickly realized that even the stronger club players had great weaknesses in their tactical play. He also discovered that simply asking them to solve a huge number of puzzles did not fix the problem. These players clearly needed a good book, but when Weteschnik looked for it he found nothing suitable, so he decided to write it himself. But Weteschnik was not completely satisfied with the book and decided to restructure and rewrite it completely.
Customer Review: Understaning tactics, finally!
I’ve followed the Michael de la Maza method (he used to play at our club) “400 points in 400 days” tactic improvement strategy, published on ChessCafe.com a few years ago. And, I have used CT-ART, done the puzzle books, etc. However, there was something missing (for me anyway) in that I felt I was just learning a few tactic patterns without understanding how it all fits together, how various tactical operations build on each other.

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