Below you will see the forthcoming issues of Chess Tales. Each issue contains 72 pages and more than 300 puzzles at different levels. Under each cover you will see the topics for the 5 sections: tactics, strategy, opening, middlegame and endgame.
So far only issue 1 is available in English, more will follow soon. If you would like to be notified about the publication dates of the other issues, you can enter your email address below for our newsletter.
Issue 1: Chess Knights
- Value of the pieces
- Calculation: 3-step method
- Nxf2 – a common mistake
- The pin
- Active king in the endgame
Issue 2: Pirate Chess
- Unprotected pieces
- Pawn islands
- Sham sacrifice variation
- Perpetual check
- Automatic mating
Issue 3: Chess in Space
- Back-rank mate
- Doubled pawns
- Early queen moves
- Rook lift
- Wrong bishop / endgame
Issue 4: Zoo Chess
- Discovered attack
- Exchanging the right way
- King in the middle
- Perfect squares
- Rule of the square
Issue 6: Farm Chess
- Intermediate check
- Knight on the rim
- Early moves of the f-pawn
- Attacking on two flanks
- Good vs. bad bishops
Issue 7: Superhero Chess
- Intermediate moves
- The blockade
- Poisoned paws
- Isolated pawns – advantages
- Outside passed pawns
Issue 8: Holiday Chess
- Bishop sacrifice on h7
- Pair of bishops
- Wrong knight moves
- Isolated pawns – disadvantages
- Fortresses
Issue 9: Underwater Chess
- Undermining
- Backward pawns
- Premature castling
- Opening the h-file
- Lucena position
Issue 10: Halloween Chess
- Opening files with a sacrifice
- Hanging pawns
- Strong central pawns
- Rook on the seventh rank
- Philidor position
Issue 11: Winter Chess
- Clearance sacrifices
- Rook secrets
- Capturing towards the centre
- Breaking down defences
- Queen vs. passed pawns
Issue 12: Cowboy Chess
- Knight forks
- Fixed pawns
- Dangerous side checks
- Restricting knights
- Stalemate tricks
Issue 13: Circus Chess
- Windmill tactics
- Kicking away an opponent’s knight
- Preventing development
- The strong knight on f5
- Opposite coloured bishops
Issue 14: Pharaoh Chess
- Cross pin
- Positional exchange sacrifice
- Fianchetto basics
- Fianchetto attacks
- Key squares in pawn endings
Issue 15: Camping Chess
- Indirect protection
- Outposts on half-open files
- Bishop zigzag
- Passed pawns – advantages
- Mating with a knight + bishop
Issue 16: Fairytale Chess
- X-ray tactics
- Pawn attacks
- Double knights
- Passed pawns – disadvantages
- Skewer trick in rook endgame
