Chess Tactics for Kids: Exercise Workbook

Description

♟️ What is this workbook for?

Tactical vision improves from solving positions, not reading explanations. This workbook by John Nunn provides active practice with real positions organised by theme: the reader commits to an answer before seeing the solution. That order — decide before looking — is what turns exercise into real learning. The thematic organisation allows focused sessions on one pattern at a time; the score table shows objective progress and which themes need more work.

🎯 Who is this book for?

• Children who know the rules and want to develop tactical vision systematically
• Students who drop pieces without seeing the opponent’s combinations
• Coaches looking for well-organised tactical practice material

📖 Contents

13 thematic chapters: algebraic notation, introduction, double attack, the pin, the skewer, attraction and deflection sacrifices, discovered attack, double check and discovered check, eliminating the defence, the intermediate move, the trapped piece, promotion, opening and closing lines, forcing draws — each with exercises then solutions. Final test and score table included.

👤 About the author

John Nunn (born 1955) is an English Grandmaster, four-time individual gold medallist at Olympiads and triple World Chess Solving Champion (2004, 2007, 2010). Translated into Spanish by José Andrés de Mingo Matías.

♟️ Why we recommend it at Chesscul

At Chesscul we use this workbook as tactical training material. The thematic organisation lets us prepare focused sessions: one theme per class without needing to find additional positions.

🔗 Recommended companions

• Chess Tactics for Kids: the theory book from the same series with fuller explanations of each theme.
• Chess Endgames for Kids: Exercise Workbook: the equivalent workbook applied to basic endgames.
• How to Beat Your Dad at Chess: develops checkmate pattern recognition in a complementary format.