Better Chess For Average Players

Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486133699
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Better Chess for Average Players written by Tim Harding and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for the typical amateur player who wants to improve his or her chess skills, this clear, straightforward guide provides the extra knowledge and technique that turns a losing player into a winner. The author, a well-known chess teacher and author of a dozen books on openings, coaches the reader through all the fundamentals of attacking, sacrifices, defense, positional play and choosing a move, as well as how to approach the endgame. The crucial processes of assessing the position and choosing a move are examined in depth, and there are helpful sections on how to cope with difficult positions and time-trouble. Several illustrative games, from the annals of the imaginary Midlington Chess Club, add a light touch to this expert practical guide to better chess. Tim Harding is a well-known chess author and captain of the Irish Correspondence Chess Team. He represented Ireland in the 1984 FIDE chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki.

Author : Axel Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784831233
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woodpecker Method 2 written by Axel Smith and published by . This book was released on 2024-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swedish chess Grandmaster Axel Smith returns with a sequel to his colossal bestseller, The Woodpecker Method, which was on the tactics of the World Champions. For The Woodpecker Method 2, he has found 1002 foundational positional exercises and prepared them for 'woodpecking' - solve the puzzles repeatedly, and boost your positional intuition. The quick explanation of the Woodpecker Method is that you need to solve a large number of puzzles in a row; then solve the same puzzles again and again, only faster. It's not a lazy shortcut to success - hard work is required. But the reward can be re-programming your unconscious mind.

Author : Tim Harding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861185419
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Better Chess for Average Players written by Tim Harding and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herman Grooten
Publisher : New In Chess
ISBN 13 : 9056916947
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chess Strategy for Club Players written by Herman Grooten and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new 3rd edition has, besides various corrections and improvements, a new introduction and a brand-new chapter called ‘Total Control’. In this 35-page chapter Grooten adds the final instructive brick to his formidable, yet very accessible, building: inspired by Tigran Petrosian’s playing style he explains amateurs how to exploit small advantages. With a new set of exercises. ---- Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what? First find the right plan, then the good moves will follow! With this book, International Master Herman Grooten presents to amateur players a complete and structured course on: how to recognize key characteristics in all types of positions how to make use of those characteristics to choose the right plan His teachings are based on the famous "Elements" of Wilhelm Steinitz, but Grooten has significantly expanded and updated the work of the first World Champion. He supplies many modern examples, tested in his own practice as a coach of talented youngsters. In Chess Strategy for Club Players you will learn the basic elements of positional understanding: -- pawn structure -- piece placement -- lead in development -- open files -- weaknesses -- space advantage -- king safety -- exploiting small advantages. The author also explains what to do when, in a given position, the basic principles seem to point in different directions. Each chapter of this fundamental primer ends with a set of highly instructive exercises.

Author : Yasser Seirawan
Publisher : Everyman Chess
ISBN 13 : 1781944326
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning Chess Strategies written by Yasser Seirawan and published by Everyman Chess. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain the advantage over your opponent with easy-to-remember strategies from one of the worlds top chess players! Strategy is the ultimate secret weapon for championship players around the world. Drawing on his considerable experience in tournament play, International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan shows you how to apply flexible strategic principles to every part of your game. Using Seirawan's simple and effective planning and analysis techniques, you'll enter each game with confidence and energy, ready to play forcefully and intelligently the way you need to play so you can win every time! Learn to: Knock your opponent off balance with bold opening moves * Formulate an overall game strategy before the middle game * Interpret the motivation behind your opponents every move * Position yourself for a winning endgame * Diagrams throughout the book illustrate game positions, and you'll meet historys greatest chess strategieslearning from them move by move! Whether for reference during practice games or simply for pleasure reading,WINNING CHESS STRATEGIES is an information packed resource you'll turn to again and again

Author : T. D. Harding
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192175502
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Better Chess for Average Chess-players written by T. D. Harding and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Emms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781944134
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Steps written by John Emms and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Steps books are based around carefully selected instructive games which demonstrate exactly what both sides are trying to achieve. There is enough theory to enable the improving player to get to grips with the opening without feeling overwhelmed.

Author : Graham Burgess
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472146190
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Chess written by Graham Burgess and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A terrific work that is particularly suited for those from beginner to club player' JOHN WATSON, The Week in Chess The fully revised and updated award-winning, bestselling, classic chess book by FIDE Master and chess world-record holder, Graham Burgess. Comprehensive and clear, this fully revised and updated fourth edition of Graham Burgess's bestselling chess classic is an invaluable guide to help any player progress to good club level and better. It provides a complete guide to the main chess openings along with hundreds of test positions for players at every level. This new edition includes: Expanded and updated sections on playing online chess and using computers. A complete and detailed guide to all the main chess openings. Hundreds of new training exercises for players of all standards. Courses in tactics, attacking strategy, combinations and endgames. Analysis of some of the greatest games ever played. Information and advice on club, national, and international tournaments. A comprehensive A-Z glossary of chess terminology. Practical advice and information for further study. New sections on endgame studies and problems, with all examples from 2020 or 2021.

Author : Werner Schweitzer
Publisher : New In Chess
ISBN 13 : 9056918591
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Toughness in Chess written by Werner Schweitzer and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your performance at the board does not only depend on your pure chess skills. Being a winner also requires a mindset that is able to cope with lots of stress and setbacks during hours of uninterrupted concentration. Just like technical chess skills, mental toughness can be trained. There are simple steps you can take that will help you to better realise your potential. Professional mental coach and chess player Werner Schweitzer has been working with chess teams and individual players for many years. In this book Schweitzer presents practical tips and tools that will help you to improve your mental power during a game. You will learn how to increase your concentration and stamina, recognize your own strengths and weaknesses, cope with losses as well as victories, increase your self-discipline when studying, handle disturbing thoughts and feelings during a game, boost your self-confidence, avoid underestimating (and overestimating!) your opponent, make better decisions while under pressure and other mental skills.These lessons and simple mental workouts will help players of all levels to unlock the full power of their brain and win more games.

Author : Ivan Sokolov
Publisher : New In Chess
ISBN 13 : 9056914774
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess written by Ivan Sokolov and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: lThe sacrifice is one of the most beautiful, rewarding and complex aspects of chess. During a game the decision to give up material in order to get an advantage is probably the most difficult one a player has to take. Often, you have to burn your bridges without being able to fully calculate the consequences. Risks and rewards are racing through your mind, fighting for precedence while the clock keeps ticking. Now is the moment, because after the next move the window for this opportunity may be closed. In this book Ivan Sokolov presents a set of practical tools that will help you to master the art of sacrifice. By concentrating on the aim you are trying to achieve, rather than on the opening you are playing or the piece you might be going to sack, he teaches you how to come to a reasonable risk assessment and how to trust your intuition. There is a separate part on seizing the initiative without actually giving up material. Ivan Sokolov has written an entertaining and instructive guide, packed with useful advice and lots of practical examples.