Chess Combinations are central to the chess, making the game magical and captivating. The beauty of sacrificing a queen, the strongest piece on the board, surrendered only to checkmate with a lowly pawn, brings a smile to the face of any chess fan.
When Winning Chess Tactics was first released, there was a clamor for more. Winning Chess Combinations was a natural way to build upon the foundation which had been set. Looking back 20 years on, the book contains a great many positions and combinations I fondly remember, and
continue to reference in my commentary work.
I hope to have many more years as a commentator, a job I love and one which would have been a great deal harder had I not learned at a young age to cherish and master the art of the combination. I’m proud of my Winning Chess series of instructional books, and am thrilled to republish all seven of them as new, upgraded editions with Chess Elevation.
May this book enhance your combinational ability, and may every diagram bring you the pleasure I felt on first encountering the magic lying within!
Yasser Seirawan,
St. Louis, December 2025
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