Smith: Pump Up Your Rating (hardcover) Taktik With his book

With his book

all the basic checkmates are explained clearly and carefully

Mikhail Botvinnik was a three-time World Chess Champion and is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest ever players

focusing on exercises in which the key move is less obvious

which comes into its own at the end of the book: with an examination of tactical motifs in the endgame

Smith: Pump Up Your Rating (hardcover) Taktik With his bookChessCafe Book of the Year 2013 Any man in the street knows how to increase his physical strength, but among most chess players confusion reigns when it comes to improving their playing strength. Axel Smith's training methods have guided his friends, teammates and pupils to grandmaster norms and titles. Hard work will be required, but Axel Smith knows how you can pump up your rating. Every area of chess is covered opening preparation, through