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New Kindle ebook – Chess Tactics Gym! (1500+ diagrams in 25+ themes)

Friends, I am excited to release my new ebook, Chess Tactics Gym!

Ever wondered how nice it would be if you could master one Tactical idea at a time. Looking at multiple tactical positions with the same theme can help you understand the theme and improve, if not master it.
This is exactly what this book is all about. You study 100+ examples on Knight Forks, or 100+ examples of Deflection and so on, till the idea sinks in.
Think you already know the basic themes like Fork, Pin, Skewer, Deflection? Wait till you read the chapters on “Back-rank weakness”, “Back-rank deflection”, “Exploiting the Pin”, “Rook lift”, “Exploiting weak squares” etc.

Overall, with 1500+ diagrams from recent 2013 games categorized into 25+ themes, I am confident you have never seen a book like this! Players below 2000 ELO will definitely find it most beneficial, but even stronger players would find it entertaining (How about the chapter on Pretty and Unfortunate mates!)

The book also has 300 exercises in the end to test your newly acquired knowledge!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
♚ Part I – Basic Ideas

  • Fork
    • Knight Fork (130 positions)
    • Bishop Fork (33)
    • Rook Fork (12)
    • Pawn Fork (9)
  • Skewer (28)
  • Pin
    • Pin against the King (38)
    • Pin against other pieces (7)
  • Exploiting the Pin
    • Material gain (99)
    • Knight forks revisited (32)
    • Check mate (30)
  • Deflection
    • Simple Deflection (130)
    • Back-rank Deflection (23)
  • Discovered Attack & Check
    • Discovered Attack (95)
    • Discovered Check (32)
  • Double Attack (74)

♚ Part II – Advanced Ideas

  • Assault on the King
    • Exposing the King (38)
    • Exploiting Weak Squares (21)
    • Back-rank Weakness (30)
    • The Rook Lift (7)
  • Removing the Defender (67)
  • Special themes
    • Clearing (22)
    • Blocking (10)
    • Zwischenzug (11)
    • Queen Traps (26)
  • Mates
    • Back-rank Mate (53)
    • h-file Mate (10)
    • Pretty Mate (38)
    • Unfortunate Mate (18)

♚ Part III – Exercises


NOTE : 1500+ diagrams make it a very large book (approx 27MB). Hence, download from Amazon may take time!

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Read Google Books using Chess Book Study Android app

Chess Book Study v2.0.1 now has a full built-in browser based on Zirco, the open-source browser.
With this the good news is that you can use the browser to read Google Books!
Here is how you can do it:
Step 1: Click “Open Web” and type http://books.google.com in the URL bar as shown below.

Once the page is loaded, click “My Library“. If you are on a Phone or other small screen device, you may need to scroll to the bottom of the page to see “My Library”

Step 2: Once you click “My Library”, Google will ask you to enter your username and password to sign-in. Enter your details and click “Sign in”. You can choose the “Remember password” option if you like. Once you are logged in, you can select your book from the “My Books on Google Play” list.

 Step 3: Once you choose a book above, it would load the book details. Now click on the Book Icon (highlighted below). In some cases, you would see a “Read Now” option to the left. If not, simply click the book image.

Step 4: The book will be loaded and you can move through the book.

In the coming months, I shall improve the experience of reading books online.

(Edit Apr 28) Note 0: The app may crash on some devices while trying this method. I am working on it!
Note 1: Google Books are proprietary and closed source. Hence it is not easy for the app to read the books offline.
Note 2: Unfortunately, Amazon Kindle books are not supported since Amazon currently only supports a limited set of browsers.

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Chess Book Study v2.0 released!


Chess Book Study has graduated to v2.0 with lots of features and improvements and I am very excited with this release.

What’s new?
☆ EBookDroid has been upgraded to 1.5.6. CBS now supports all the features of ebookdroid like Auto Crop, Split, Search etc.

☆ Works well with other Chess apps. Now “Copy PGN” can immediately open the position in Chess for Android or DroidFish apps. You can save the PGN from that app.
☆ Quick access to Board options. No long press required.
☆ Improved “Open Web” feature. Now incorporates a full fledged open source zirco browser (with some minor changes)
☆ Book and Board positions can be swapped. See Board Settings. Also has a left handed mode!
☆ Hold the left/right arrows to jump to start or end board positions.
☆ Many other UI and experience improvements like bigger coordinates, board background, always-on arrows, new Edit Board layout
☆ Bug fixes. May they RIP!

NB. Incase if the app crashes after upgrade, then simply uninstall and re-install both the apps.

Get it from the Play Store or download the Free version from my Google docs.

Edit. Chess Book Study v2.0.1 released with a bug fix in Edit Board screen in landscape mode (Thx Abel)
EBookDroid (Chess) v1.5.6.2.3 released with bug fix related to menu options on some devices.  (Thx Karlo)

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Right way to study a Chess Ebook!

“Chess Book Study” is a unique fusion of an ebookreader and a board.
You can load any ebook and make the moves on a variation board in the same screen.
This helps to STUDY the chess book by making moves on the board and not just read it.

 
* Supports pdf, djvu & djv file format
* Multi zoom, bookmarks, goto page
* 3 board sizes
* Its Free!

Well I personally studies over 100 pages of Mikhail Tal’s Life and Games during the course of its development!

(Ideal for large screen phones and tablets.)

Android Market Link: http://goo.gl/sR4ra