Every improving chess player knows the feeling. You’ve played a brilliant opening, navigated the middlegame with care, and built a completely winning position. Victory is within your grasp. Then, in a single, horrifying moment, you make a move, hit the clock, and see it: a knight fork, a hanging piece, a back-rank mate you completely … Continue reading Dan Heisman’s Back to Basics: Tactics – An In-Depth Chess Book Review