My Daily Exercise: 365 Tactical Tests to Improve Your Chess

Most games of chess are decided through tactics. The best advice for a novice who wants to improve quickly is therefore: improve your tactical abilities. This book is neither just a freewheeling puzzle book, nor a systematic course in which the thematic grouping of the positions gives an unwelcome hint to the solution. The tactical themes are clearly explained, but the random order in which the exercises are presented, makes studying the material much more similar to what a player experiences in an actual tournament game.