Queen's Gambit Declined D40D49 455 Characteristic Chess Puzzles Author:Bill Harvey The puzzles in this collection are culled from thousands of Semi-Tarrasch and Semi-Slav miniatures - short games of 20 moves or less. It is more fruitful to study the tactics of an opening you might encounter as White or Black than to study the knight fork, pin or skewer, one tactic at a time. When the type of tactic is provided with the puzzle... more », it is already half solved. Study the more common tactics found within an opening you face and you will come away with an understanding of the real dynamics of the opening and pick up tactics you can already use. Bill Harvey is webmaster of wtharvey.com, a site with 10,000 chess puzzles from modern and historic games. Typesetting and cover design by Robert Gamble.« less