This is a book about tactics in chess, the author of which is Honored Chess Coach of Ukraine, international master, FIDE senior coach Vinnitsa Nikolai Bodnar. Working as a coach at the Vinnitsa Chess School, he trained many champions and prize-winners of world championships, Europe and Ukraine, grandmasters and masters. This book contains 1000 best positions of the past and present, 200 positions each for the 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st categories and kms, ms, mm. Examples in the book are chosen on different topics so that the development of tactical thinking approaches a real practical game.