Predator at the Chessboard

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1. chaosmachineApr 2010
   A Predator at the Chessboard:

   http://www.chesstactics.org/

   This is a really incredible (and free!) chess book. If you read and practice your way through this, you'll have no trouble beating the average chess player.

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2. netvarunApr 2017
   This book is a masterpiece with some amazingly lucid writing. I have spent many hours reading this book just for the prose.

   Fun fact: The author is the dean of the University of Texas School of Law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Farnsworth IMHO, his chess writing reminds me a lot of pg's writings on startup and tech (and I could only imagine how lucid his legal writings would be)

   If you are looking for the deadtree version of this - it's available as a two-part book series on Amazon titled 'Predator At The Chessboard' - https://www.amazon.com/Predator-At-Chessboard-Field-Tactics/...

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