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		sethbannon on Nov 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Get Good at Chess, Fast For tactics training, I highly recommend "1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations" (http://www.amazon.com/1001-Winning-Chess-Sacrifices-Combinat...) and "1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate (http://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Checkmate-Chess-lovers-libra...). Both books are things you can toss in your bag and pick up when you have a spare minute.

tomsthumb on Nov 25, 2013 [–]

chesstempo.com is also quite good for tactics training.

Tons of problems (20000+), comments for explanations, thematic tagging, ratings graphs. This is all free.

The paid tier lets you construct problem sets from criteria. The list goes on.

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