Learn Chess the Right Way: Book 2

Learn Chess the Right Way: Book 2, Winning Material by Susan Polgar and Paul Truong, Teaches young players and beginners the most effective ways to play chess the right way. Players are shown ways to understand the most common and critical patterns and ways to become a better player.

Volume 2 is all about "winning material" exercises. In each of the first six chapters a certain piece captures an enemy piece (in chapter 1 _ The Queen, in chapter 2 _ The Rook, and so on). In chapter 7, you will get no hint about which piece should be moved. In chapters 8-12, the most common and important chess tactics (such as decoy, fork, pin, discovery and skewer) are introduced. Finally, in chapter 13, in addition to the previously mentioned patterns, you will need to figure out which tactical pattern to use to win material, including concepts like "trapping a piece" or "intermediate move." Paperback, 168 pages.