Chess tactics of the XXI century

The new book of the famous journalist of the international master Vladimir Barsky is devoted to the methods of finding typical matte combinations. About 1000 examples (of which 882 - for an independent solution) are divided into 10 chapters, in each of which the “first violin” is played by a particular figure or several figures. A similar classification based on the final matte picture was proposed by the classic of Soviet and Russian chess journalism Viktor Lvovich Henkin (1923-2010) in his bestseller "Last Shah".
With all the variety of chess of matte combinations, there are not so many, about a hundred, of which the basic are no more than two or three dozen. Remember the main schemes by the forces not even a very experienced chess player. Numerous well -selected examples from parties played in the 21st century show typical attacks of attacks on the king, teach combinations even in harmless positions. The book is addressed to chess players: it can serve as a training manual for schoolchildren, but it will be interesting to adults