Chess Visualization Course, Book 2:
Kingside Sacrifices and Combinations
(with Preparatory Positions) (ebook)

The Chess Visualization Course, Book 2: Kingside Sacrifices and Combinations (with Preparatory Positions) is now available as an ebook. It's 564 pages long and contains 880 visualization exercises that illustrate the main sacrifices and combinations that occur on the six squares directly in front of Black's kingside castled King (specifically, f7-g7-h7 on the 7th rank and f6-g6-h6 on the 6th rank).

The book contains 28 chapters broken down into five sections:

     Section 1. Sacrifices on f7 -- 6 chapters
     Section 2. Sacrifices on g6 -- 3 chapters
     Section 3. Sacrifices on h7 -- 6 chapters
     Section 4. The Classic Bishop Sacrifice -- 5 chapters
     Section 5. Sacrifices on the Dark Squares -- 8 chapters

With 880 visualization exercises in 28 chapters, the average is a little more than 30 exercises per chapter. Each chapter has at least 16 and as many as 44 visualization exercises. Nine of the 28 chapters have 40 exercises or more.

This ebook also contains 1802 preparatory positions that show the various mating patterns and other key ideas that occur at the end of each visualization exercise. We added the preparatory positions because many of the visualization exercises in Book 2 are longer than those in Book 1 and we wanted to do everything possible to help you visualize these longer variations all the way through to the end of the variation.

But adding the 1802 preparatory positions has made this a very large book -- 564 pages in all!  So, in order to keep the cost of the book low, we are intially offering Book 2 as an ebook. This not only reduces the cost of the book itself, but also eliminates all shipping costs. The ebook is a .PDF file that you can either read on your computer or print out as a hardcopy document. Please click here to read about the hardcopy version of Book 2

The following two booklets will give you closer look at some of the contents of Book 2:

     -- Introductions to the book;
     -- Chapter 14.

The first booklet contains all of the introductory materials in Book 2, that is, the introduction to the book, the introduction to each section, and the introduction to each chapter. It's 41 pages long.

The second booklet contains Chapter 14 in its entirety, including all 16 visualization exercises and the 43 preparatory positions that relate to these exercises. It's 21 pages long.