Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition: More Key Moves Motifs in the Middlegame

Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition: More Key Moves Motifs in the Middlegame

In this sequel to his instant classic, Arthur van de Oudeweetering presents players of almost every level with a fresh supply of easy-to-remember building blocks for their chess knowledge.Pattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement. It helps you to quickly grasp the essence of a position on the board and find the most promising continuation.In short, well-defined and practical chapters, IM Van de Oudeweetering presents hundreds of surprising middlegame themes. After working with this book, you will find the right move more often and more quickly!To test your understanding, Van de Oudeweetering provides an abundance of exercises.Arthur van de Oudeweetering (1966) is an International Master and an experienced chess trainer from the Netherlands.GM Matthew Sadler, author of 'Chess for Life':"Gives you the very pleasant feeling of learning new things without spending too much effort!"IM Frank Zeller, SCHACH Magazine:"Once you have stored a lot of patterns, finding the best or most interesting move at the board will take less time (..) The (unintentional?) side-effect of the book is: a snapshot of moderns chess at the highest level."IM Dirk Schuh, Rochade Europa Magazine:"This book is structured the same way as 'Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition' and gives just as much joy (..) It is very amusingly written and it will easily improve your chess."Harry Schaack, KARL Chess Magazine:"Every ambitious player should at least make sure that he knows all motifs that 'Chess Pattern Recognition' presents."CHESS Magazine (UK): The Dutch IM and experienced chess teacher presents more key middlegame themes and ideas. Van de Oudeweteering's emphasis is on gradually increasing the reader's building blocks so that he or she becomes much better at pattern recognition."B.H.Wilders, Nederlands Dagblad:"Suitable for players of every level (..) Recognition helps with confidently finding a plan and the right continuation."FIDE Master Richard Vedder, Schakers.info:"'Improve Your Chess Pattern Recoginition' presented 40 eye-openers for club players. In his new book Arthur van de Oudeweteering has collected another 37 small-scale themes that are very useful to know."Florian Jacobs, Max Euwe Centre Amsterdam:"A book that will make every chess player more creative."Gerd Schowalter, German Correspondence Chess Federation:"This fine and instructive book has a convincingly clear lay-out."Mark Haast, Schaaksite.nl:"A highly instructive middlegame book (..) recommended to everyone who wants to extend his arsenal of positional weapons. And fun to read, that too!"PRAISE for Arthur van de Oudeweetering's 'Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition': James Rizzitano, ChessCafe:Club players will benefit from this book and master level players are also likely to pick up some new ideas by carefully reviewing the material.IM Gary Lane, Chess Moves Magazine:"Every improving player will learn a lot from this book."IM Thomas Engqvist, SchackSnack:It is an excellent book when it comes to freshen up the arsenal of typical but also unusual positional themes (..) Normally in a game the positional ideas precede the combinations and that's why this middlegame book is so important.

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Mating the Castled King by Danny Gormally (twarda okładka)

Mating the Castled King by Danny Gormally (twarda okładka)

Książka w języku angielskim. Every chess player loves to win with a devastating attack. But even beginners know the importance of early castling, so the most significant attacking strategies are those against a castled king. Danny Gormally sheds light on this vital area of the game, arguing that pattern recognition is key to improvement. This book strips away the mystique surrounding successful attacking play, and identifies several recurring motifs which can be applied to specific pawn structures and sce

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Thinking With Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14

Thinking With Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14

 Whats the best way to teach chess to children? Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14 is a handbook for teachers, librarians, after-school instructors, chess coaches, counselors, and parents that requires no prior knowledge of the game. Both novices and veteran chess players can use its innovative lesson plans for teaching groups of children.InThinking with Chess, Dr. Alexey Root connects chess with skills important to academic success, such as classifying, pattern recognition, decoding, creati

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Better thinking, better chess

Better thinking, better chess

Finding strong moves doesn't simply depend on how much you know about chess. In fact, greater conceptual knowledge makes choosing a move more complex as it increases the number of directions your mind can take. More important is optimizing your thought process.Grandmaster Joel Benjamin knows that pointing out the moves his students missed is just half the job. They need to understand that they were looking in the wrong direction. Chess engines offer little help in this because they cant explain why you we

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Magnus Carlsen's Middlegame Evolution by Ivan Sokolov

Magnus Carlsen's Middlegame Evolution by Ivan Sokolov

Wersja w twardej okładce. Książka w języku angielskim.Magnus Carlsens mastery of the middlegame is astonishing, even by the standards of World Champions. But how did this power develop, and what can the rest of us learn from it? To explain the mysteries requires another elite grandmaster, and Ivan Sokolov is perfectly qualified for this role.Magnus Carlsens Middlegame Evolution allows the reader to celebrate the brilliance of the highest-rated chess player in history while learning from his example. With

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The Fianchetto Solution: A Complete, Solid and Flexible Chess Opening Repertoire

The Fianchetto Solution: A Complete, Solid and Flexible Chess Opening Repertoire

A Complete, Solid and Flexible Chess Opening Repertoire for Black White ­ with the Kings FianchettoWhen experienced chess teacher Emmanuel Neiman learned that some of his pupils hesitated to play in competitions for fear of being crushed in the opening, he wanted to help. Neiman knew that amateurs have little time to seriously study opening theory, so he had to come up with a practical, complete, easy-to-learn and solid opening repertoire that would not outdate rapidly.And that is what he did. Neiman adv

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The King is a Powerful Piece: More than 100 Illustrative Games

The King is a Powerful Piece: More than 100 Illustrative Games

Cowering in the middlegame, towering in the endgame: chess theory teaches that the king needs protection from enemy pieces until the ending, when finally it can come out from hiding to decisive effect. But what if the king can take care of itself, and even march out to battle with its army? FIDE Master and coach Tigran Gyozalyan fills a gap in the chess literature with the first systematic exploration of the kings role and capabilities in the opening and the middlegame.Relying on a selection of more than

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Chess Blueprints: Planning in the Middlegame

Chess Blueprints: Planning in the Middlegame

Planning is critical to winning in chess. While other writers offer you thinking tools for building an effective plan, in Chess Blueprints: Planning in the Middlegame Nikolay Yakovlev gives you the bricks – the positional themes and patterns that you need to know in order to make use of those fancy tools. With 188 positions and 559 diagrams ranging from the classics to little-known gems of Russian chess, the author challenges you to form your own impression and then see how the masters honed in on

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Move First, Think Later: Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess

Move First, Think Later: Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess

3rd Edition - with a new epilogue: 'The Discussion Continues'The chess instruction establishment claims that all you need to do is concentrate on the characteristics of a position. Stick to some rules of thumb and good moves will pop up more or less automatically.But that is not how it works, finds International Master Willy Hendriks. Chess players, both weak and strong, dont first make a plan before looking at candidate moves. Trial and error is a very common and in fact highly effective way to get to th

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GM Preparation - Strategic Play (miękka okładka)

GM Preparation - Strategic Play (miękka okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska.In Strategic Play Jacob Aagaard digs deep into the most complex area of chess thinking. The games and exercises in this book transcend regular chess skills, such as pattern recognition, calculation and positional analysis.Building on the two previous books in the Grandmaster Preparation series, this book challenges the reader to explore the complexities of chess, offering clarity and understanding through Aagaards straightforward approach.Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard won t

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Power Chess for Kids: Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best...

Power Chess for Kids: Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best...

Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best Players in Your SchoolIf you want to amaze your friends with your chess skills, this is exactly the book you have been looking for. To become one of the best chess players in your school you need to play Power Moves, winning tactics that require thinking ahead. But how do you find Power Moves? Experienced chess trainer Charles Hertan will show you and help you to become a very dangerous player! You will learn how to weed out silly moves and just consider

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Soviet Middlegame Technique by Peter Romanovsky (miękka okładka)

Soviet Middlegame Technique by Peter Romanovsky (miękka okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Many of the classics of Soviet chess literature have struggled to see the light of day, but none more so than Soviet Middlegame Technique by Peter Romanovsky. The original version of this famous guide to the middlegame was published in 1929 when Romanovsky was Soviet Champion. Romanovsky later decided to update and improve his work. As he finished his work in 1942, World War II was underway and Romanovsky was trapped in the notorious siege of Leningrad. The author bare

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Soviet Middlegame Technique by Peter Romanovsky (twarda okładka)

Soviet Middlegame Technique by Peter Romanovsky (twarda okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Many of the classics of Soviet chess literature have struggled to see the light of day, but none more so than Soviet Middlegame Technique by Peter Romanovsky. The original version of this famous guide to the middlegame was published in 1929 when Romanovsky was Soviet Champion. Romanovsky later decided to update and improve his work. As he finished his work in 1942, World War II was underway and Romanovsky was trapped in the notorious siege of Leningrad. The author bare

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Super Chess Kids: Win Like the World's Young Champions!

Super Chess Kids: Win Like the World's Young Champions!

If you want to improve in chess you often find instructional material based on games played long ago by old masters with who you have no affinity at all. Franco Zaninotto has a different approach. He knows from experience how stimulating it is to study the games of the best players in your peer group.Zaninotto teaches elementary strategy and tactics by using games he has selected from recent Junior Championships all over the world. He shows that you dont need to have decades of experience in order to play

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Grandmaster Preparation - Strategic Play by Jacob Aagaard (twarda okładka)

Grandmaster Preparation - Strategic Play by Jacob Aagaard (twarda okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. In Strategic Play Jacob Aagaard digs deep into the most complex area of chess thinking. The games and exercises in this book transcend regular chess skills, such as pattern recognition, calculation and positional analysis. Building on the two previous books in the Grandmaster Preparation series, this book challenges the reader to explore the complexities of chess, offering clarity and understanding through Aagaards straightforward approach.Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard won

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Chess training Pocket Book II

Chess training Pocket Book II

320 Key Positions to improve your chess skills. 'The Chess Training Pocket Book II: How to spot tactics and how far ahead to calculate' gives you the knowledge and training you need to become a master-strength player. It will test, train, and sharpen your thinking skills.The first chapter has a number of extremely useful, no-nonsense tips on how to think about a position, such as: how to battle tunnel-vision, handle candidate moves, use 'support positions', and switch perspective.The bulk of the book cons

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