Look Ahead! Book 1
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The ability to look ahead is a fundamental skill in the world of chess, strongly correlated with overall chess proficiency. Tigran Petrosian, a world chess champion, once said the person who is the best in the world at ‘I go there, he goes there, I go there etc.’ is the best player in the world.
Looking ahead in chess requires the cultivation of visual memory, a skill honed through diligent practice.
Look Ahead! has been expertly crafted to enhance your visualisation skills, making the process of seeing ahead as easy as possible.
This book is the first in the Look Ahead series and caters primarily to beginners and players up to a rating of 1400, systematically guiding you towards the capacity to visualize up to four moves ahead.
Also available at a discount in the Look Ahead - 5 book bundle.
This book uses variations which culminate in checkmate, requiring you to correctly visualise if a potential position is mate. For instance, you wouldn’t want to sacrifice your Queen only to discover that there is an escape from what you thought was a checkmate. In each position, visualise the final mate before playing your move or moves.
In the first chapter of mate in 1 puzzles your aim is to find the mating move. When you have found a move, it is recommended that you carefully visualise the consequences of that move. The same puzzles are repeated in each chapter, but one move deeper each time. Having familiarized yourself with the variations in earlier chapters should make solving the longer sequences more manageable. By visualizing the sequence of moves to be played and the ultimate board position, you will significantly enhance your chess visual memory. With practice, you will get faster and faster at seeing ahead, and find yourself blitzing out mates in your games.
Puzzles are extracted from games involving many famous players with numerous beautiful checkmates included. In some cases there are anecdotes concerning the players involved based on interactions with the author himself.
- Chapter 1 consists of 200 mates in one, some easier than others.
- Chapter 2 has 200 mates in two, building on the mates in one.
- Chapter 3 has 200 mates in three, building on the mates in two.
- Chapter 4 has the complete 200 mates in four.
The second book in the series extends the difficulty by looking ahead five moves: