Test Your Positional Play (Macmillan Library of Chess)

Designed to improve a player's middlegame performance by analyzing the strategic and tactical elements of a position, these tests also explain how to form a plan and to check that is it sound. Over 100 positions test the reader's ability to formulate the correct plan using a multiple choice format. This thought-provoking work provides a unique method of improving strategic understanding through self-evaluation.

Beginner

Test Your Positional Play (Macmillan Library of Chess)

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Boost Your Chess 2: Beyond the Basics (Yusupov's Chess School)

Artur Yusupov’s complete course of chess training stretches to nine volumes, guiding the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles.

The course is structured in three series with three levels. The Fundamentals level is the easiest one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players.

The various topics – Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, Endgames, Calculating Variations, and Openings – are spread evenly across the nine volumes, giving readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books.

This book is the second volume at the Beyond the Basics level.

Boost Your Chess 2: Beyond the Basics (Yusupov's Chess School)

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Test Your Chess Iq, Book 2 (Pergamon Russian Chess Series) (Bk. 2)

Is the ability to make combinations something you are born with or can it be acquired by practice? Soviet chess trainer Livshitz, who has had extensive experience of teaching a wide range of players from novices to masters, presents here a course for developing your combinational skill, based on the recognition of combinational themes. As you work your way through this carefully graded series of tests, themes such as 'diversion', 'interference', `X-ray' and many more will become an integral part of your chess armoury, to be employed in your own games. Solving these positions will not only provide many hours of pleasure but will also enable you to test - andimprovel - your chess IQ.

Test Your Chess Iq, Book 2 (Pergamon Russian Chess Series) (Bk. 2)

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Test Your Chess Piece Power

Test Your Chess Piece Power

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How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess

Computers have permeated almost every facet of modern chess, yet few players know how to gain the maximum benefit from working with them. Computers function as playing partners, opening study tools, endgame 'oracles', tactics trainers, sources of information on opponents and searchable game databases. Kongsted provides practical advice on how to use computers in all these ways and more. He also takes a look at the history of the chess computer, and how its 'thinking' methods have developed since the early days. The book features an investigation of human vs. machine contests, including the recent Kasparov vs. Deep Junior and Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz matches, in which honours ended even.

How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess

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The Sicilian Accelerated Dragon: Improve Your Results with New Ideas in This Dynamic Opening

The Sicilian Accelerated Dragon succeeds by focusing attention on how Black can break the Maroczy Bind and create dynamic possibilities. Studying these general principles can enhance any player's game. Intermediate.

The Sicilian Accelerated Dragon: Improve Your Results with New Ideas in This Dynamic Opening

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Your Best Move

“I look one move ahead... the best!”, Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess is a wonderfully rich and complex game, but ultimately the goal can be simply defined as consistently finding the best move. If you are able to do this, you will win your games. However, the million dollar question is: how can we give ourselves the very best chance of doing so?

Per Ostman is convinced that there are three key elements: first and foremost, a structured move-by-move thinking process; second, the desired skills to execute this process; and finally, traditional chess knowledge we can build upon. Ostman examines these three vital building blocks which form the basis of what we need to master. He describes in detail a clear thinking process he has developed over several years as a chess teacher – a process to guide us in our ultimate search to find the best move.

Your Best Move

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Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days

Australian chess champion Gary Lane introduced his unique training methods in the bestselling Improve Your Chess in 7 Days. Now he applies the same quick, effective approach to a book focused on tactics. With realistic examples from actual games, the reader learns to use pins, forks, skewers, decoys, deflections, and other classic maneuvers in every phase of play, from the opening to the endgame. By following the plan day by day—studying the positions, reading the text, and performing the exercises—any player, whether beginner, intermediate, or advanced, is assured of dramatic results in just 7 days.

Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days

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How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course, Expanded 3rd Edition

How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked improvement in anyone's game. In clear, direct language, Silman shows how to dissect a position, recognize its individual parts and ultimately find the move that conforms to the needs of that particular situation. By explaining the thought processes that go into a master's choice of move, the author presents a system of thought that makes advanced strategies seem clear, logical and at times even obvious. How the Reassess Your Chess offers invaluable knowledge and insight that cannot be found in any other book.

How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course, Expanded 3rd Edition

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It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles (Everyman Chess)

Feeling up to a challenge? In this highly original and instructive self-test book, Grandmaster Chris Ward presents a selection of carefully chosen puzzles to solve. Hot on the heels of his very successful It's Your Move and Improvers It's Your Move, comes It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles, which this time aims to rack the brains of even the most experienced chess players.
The puzzles might be a bit more difficult this time but, in the same style of the previous two books, the reader is once again helped by the choice of five plausible plans and has to decide which is the most likely to succeed. The answers then identify the most promising plan and explain why the other choices are less attractive. Instead of opting for the traditional 'check, check, mate ... mate!' type of puzzles, Ward concentrates on situations which are much more likely to occur in practical games.

It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles (Everyman Chess)

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It's Your Move Improvers

This is a highly original and instructive self-test book. The puzzles are aimed at the improving club player or promising junior.

It's Your Move Improvers

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Building Up Your Chess: The Art of Accurate Evaluation and Other Winning Techniques

A new, more logical method of evaluating your game position in chess.

Building Up Your Chess makes use of colorful graphs and a new, more logical method of expressing the evaluation of a chess position to teach the critical skill of assessing how you stand. Lev Alburt's unique experience as both a top-level champion and a world-renowned teacher allow him to explain in a clear, logical way how to master chess. He maximizes the results of your reading time. More than 400 chess diagrams make reading easy.

Building Up Your Chess: The Art of Accurate Evaluation and Other Winning Techniques

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Your First Chess Games (Batsford Chess Library)

This book explains how the reader can improve his or her game by looking at the common traps and strategies which arise at every stage of a game. Every important idea is systematically illustrated with several samples providing a thorough grounding in the basic techniques of chess play. The book will be ideal for the novice player who has mastered the basic skills of tactics and checkmating and wants to make further progress.

Your First Chess Games (Batsford Chess Library)

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The Complete Chess Workout 2: Another 1200 Puzzles to Train Your Brain

It's time to start your chess training! This is the eagerly awaited follow-up to The Complete Chess Workout, Richard Palliser's highly acclaimed chess puzzle book. Now he presents the reader with 1200 new puzzles, every one checked for accuracy by the latest computer engines. All top chess players agree that to keep your tactical muscles in shape it's imperative to continue training, and the easiest and most fun way to do this is by performing tactical exercises. Even solving a few puzzles for ten minutes each day can be of the utmost benefit for the aspiring player. Just as in his first book, Palliser provides something for players of all levels: a huge number of basic tactics - forks, pins, skewers and checkmates - to appeal to beginners and improvers, and many brain-teasers that will tax even the strongest of players. All the important tactical themes are covered, while there are special sections on opening traps and endgames.

The Complete Chess Workout 2: Another 1200 Puzzles to Train Your Brain

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