"that next Level from 1200 to 2200".

Jeeez 😬😬

Predator at the Chessboard much like Tactics from scratch solves basic tactics. Describes both check/capture/threats and pattern recognition methods to come up with solutions.

Weteschnik's explanation and approach to tactics is similar to those described in Lasker's Manual. Both break down the functions of the pieces and then go about isolating and undermining a critical function of a position. Lasker was a worldclass mathematician and breaks down tactics very logically as a mathematician would.  Weteschnik's book is terrific indeed and surpasses the early work by Lasker but i can recommend both. 👍

Love you Jesse, please make more videos soon

"Tune Your Chess Tactics Antenna" by Niemann helped me enormously in spotting tactics by breaking things into "signals" like alignment, restricted pieces, etc.

Just perfect Jesse!

I love these book review videos but for the life of me at the end of it I cant remember him talking about the book

Jesse, regarding source of “all tactics are double attacks” (paraphrased)… I can't say that Yasser didn’t say it first, but he would have had to have said it before 1984 (when he was 24 years old). See Yuri Averbakh, “Chess Tactics for Advanced Players,” 1984, p. 6: “If we regard the term ‘double attack’ in a broader sense than has been done up to now by theoreticians, namely not merely as a two-pronged attack, but as a combination of attacks and threats, we notice that the double attack in one form or another is the basis of most intricate tactical operations.”

Greetings!! Thank you :)

At 14:34, if Black moves the bishop, isn't the main threat 2.h7+ Nxh7 3.Ne7+ & 4.Qxh7#? Polgar!

Just got the book a week ago. Can't wait to finish the one I'm working on right now and start this one too!

How does this compare to the TASC Steps books regarding tactics?

Any chance you will ever release de chessdojo problem database as a book? Like truly the perfect your chess for the intermediate players?

I like lichess puzzles because they get them from their games database, they're not computer generated puzzles

Perhaps I've missed  it, but you mentioned it was designed for the 1600 USCF (?) level but that it is harder than this. So, where would you put the actual level?

The hook and ladder example.
Black could play Kh7 and then queens could exchange and just be left rooks, and even. If white responds Qc2+ black can play g6 and again it looks even?

I'm confused...on the first example, couldn't white capture the rook on e8 for a checkmate?

I'm sure this is a fine book, but I'm still grinding my way through The Woodpecker Method and am absolutely shocked at what I DON'T know about tactics.  😳

"Kostya, making people solve 300 pin exercises is not organic" -Proceeds to make every dojoer solve 3000 mates in 2/3 🤣

No, seriously, I have completed this book as part of my cohort asignments and I it has fundamentally changed for the better how I think about tactics. 10/10 book, great choice! 👏

Hi, I'm 2000 fide rated 25 yo. I have a huge knowledge about openings but I think I have big flaws in middlegame. Do you think it will be possible to achieve 2200 or even 2300 in my life? I have free time everyday. I had a look at training programs, but I would like to have more details , how it works etc.. Thank you!