The tiger is a vicious beast. He doesn't care about the aesthetic side of chess. He doesn't even care about making the 'best' moves. All he cares about is winning.

Chess for Tigers is one of the most influential books on chess ever written. This third edition, revised and updated by the author shortly before his tragic death in 2005, is as relevant to today's generation of chess players as when it was first published 25 years ago. It makes ideal reading for club players who want to make full use of their own natural talent and win at all costs.

Chess for Tigers shows you how to:

• play on your opponent's weaknesses

• steer a game into a position that suits you and not your Opponent

• get results against strong Opposition

• cope with the clock

• avoid silly mistakes

• make sure luck is on your side

Full of common-sense advice, straight talking and humour, and enlivened by Edward McLachlan's witty illustrations, this book is an acknowledged chess classic.

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Since the second edition was published in 1990, there have been dramatic changes in competitive chess. Time limits have become shorter, adjournments and adjudications have been replaced by quick finishes, and Quick Play events have become much more popular. Correspondence chess has been transformed by the impact of e-mail, analysis engines and databases.

So l have updated Chess for Tigers to reflect these and other changes.

Simon Webb

Stockholm, 2005

005 Foreword

001 So you want to be a Tiger?

009 Play the man - not the board

022 Looking in the mirror

035 How to improve your opening repertoire

042 How to catch Rabbits

051 How to trap Heffalumps

066 Fortune favours the lucky

083 How to win won positions

093 What to do in drawn positions

100 Cock control

120 How to avoid silly mistakes

123 Team Play

134 Quick Play

140 Correspondence Chess

151 Are you ready... ?