Hendriks - Move first, think later: sense and nonsense in improving your chess

Some of the material in this book has been published, in more or less identical form, in the (now defunct) Dutch chess magazine Schaaknieuws (in 2008).

The first chapter has been published in The Chess Instructor 2009 and can be read as a preview of what this book is about.

There are many positions and fragments in this book that come from my own games and my students games. Some of the others I picked up by following chess news, as well as studying the classics. And quite a lot I selected from other books: where possible, I have tried to mention the original source.

The daily Chess Today e-mail magazine deserves a special mention. Some of the more recent tactical exercises in this book I took from its daily puzzles.

So the great majority of puzzle positions are new, but a few you might al ready be familiar with.

For their help with this book, I would especially like to thank Jan van de Mortel, Peter Ypma and Anja de Wijs.

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