Author: Zenon Franco
Publisher: Gambit Publications
ISBN: 9781904600299
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Zenon Franco guides readers through 50 top-level games, challenges them to guess key moves correctly, and poses questions at critical moments. Points are awarded for good answers, and at the end of each game, a score-chart rates the reader's performance. This material has never appeared in the English language before, and represents the pick of monthly articles that Franco has written for a quarter of a century in Spanish-language magazines, revised and rechecked for this book.
Chess Self-Improvement
Author: Zenon Franco
Publisher: Gambit Publications
ISBN: 9781904600299
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Zenon Franco guides readers through 50 top-level games, challenges them to guess key moves correctly, and poses questions at critical moments. Points are awarded for good answers, and at the end of each game, a score-chart rates the reader's performance. This material has never appeared in the English language before, and represents the pick of monthly articles that Franco has written for a quarter of a century in Spanish-language magazines, revised and rechecked for this book.
Publisher: Gambit Publications
ISBN: 9781904600299
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Zenon Franco guides readers through 50 top-level games, challenges them to guess key moves correctly, and poses questions at critical moments. Points are awarded for good answers, and at the end of each game, a score-chart rates the reader's performance. This material has never appeared in the English language before, and represents the pick of monthly articles that Franco has written for a quarter of a century in Spanish-language magazines, revised and rechecked for this book.
Improve Your Chess at Any Age
Author: Andres D. Hortilosa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857446180
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this original and thought-provoking book, Andres D. Hortillosa explains his ever-evolving system of chess improvement. If you are serious about improving your chess this book is for you.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857446180
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this original and thought-provoking book, Andres D. Hortillosa explains his ever-evolving system of chess improvement. If you are serious about improving your chess this book is for you.
The Self-Improvement of Chess
Author: Mark Borders
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430327642
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"The Self-Improvement of Chess -- Why the Game's Basics Apply to Daily Living" is a journey into how the world's ultimate brain game is a perfect model for constructing and organizing your everyday life -- from a person who is just an average, recreational player. There are few diagrams and notations to bog down the casual reader. Rather, it is a collection of insights and stories that illustrate a practical perspective of the game. It covers how even just the basic rules and fundamentals of chess can be applied to situations that arise in daily living.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430327642
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"The Self-Improvement of Chess -- Why the Game's Basics Apply to Daily Living" is a journey into how the world's ultimate brain game is a perfect model for constructing and organizing your everyday life -- from a person who is just an average, recreational player. There are few diagrams and notations to bog down the casual reader. Rather, it is a collection of insights and stories that illustrate a practical perspective of the game. It covers how even just the basic rules and fundamentals of chess can be applied to situations that arise in daily living.
Chess Improvement
Author: Peter Wells
Publisher: Crown House Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785835092
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Written by Barry Hymer and Peter Wells, Chess Improvement: It's all in the mindset is an engaging and instructive guide that sets out how the application of growth mindset principles can accelerate chess improvement. With Tim Kett and insights from Michael Adams, David Howell, Harriet Hunt, Gawain Jones, Luke McShane, Matthew Sadler and Nigel Short. Foreword by Henrik Carlsen, father of world champion Magnus Carlsen. Twenty-first-century knowledge about skills development and expertise requires us to keep such mystical notions as fixed 'talent' in perspective, and to emphasise instead the dynamic and malleable nature of these concepts. Nowhere is this more apparent than in chess, where many gifted players fall prey to plausible but self-defeating beliefs and practices - and thereby fail to achieve the levels their 'natural' abilities predicted. Happily, however, the reverse can be true too; through learned dispositions such as grit, risk-taking, strategic thinking and a capacity for sheer hard work, players of apparently modest abilities can achieve impressive results. Blending theory, practice and the distinct but complementary skills of two authors - one an academic (and amateur chess player) and the other a highly regarded England Chess Olympiad coach (and grandmaster) - Chess Improvement is an invaluable resource for any aspirational chess player or coach/parent of a chess player. Barry and Peter draw on interviews conducted with members of England's medal-winning elite squad of players and provide a template for chess improvement rooted in the practical wisdom of experienced chess players and coaches. They also include practical illustrative descriptions from the games and chess careers of both developing and leading players, and pull together themes and suggestions in a way which encourages readers to create their own trajectories for chess improvement.
Publisher: Crown House Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785835092
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Written by Barry Hymer and Peter Wells, Chess Improvement: It's all in the mindset is an engaging and instructive guide that sets out how the application of growth mindset principles can accelerate chess improvement. With Tim Kett and insights from Michael Adams, David Howell, Harriet Hunt, Gawain Jones, Luke McShane, Matthew Sadler and Nigel Short. Foreword by Henrik Carlsen, father of world champion Magnus Carlsen. Twenty-first-century knowledge about skills development and expertise requires us to keep such mystical notions as fixed 'talent' in perspective, and to emphasise instead the dynamic and malleable nature of these concepts. Nowhere is this more apparent than in chess, where many gifted players fall prey to plausible but self-defeating beliefs and practices - and thereby fail to achieve the levels their 'natural' abilities predicted. Happily, however, the reverse can be true too; through learned dispositions such as grit, risk-taking, strategic thinking and a capacity for sheer hard work, players of apparently modest abilities can achieve impressive results. Blending theory, practice and the distinct but complementary skills of two authors - one an academic (and amateur chess player) and the other a highly regarded England Chess Olympiad coach (and grandmaster) - Chess Improvement is an invaluable resource for any aspirational chess player or coach/parent of a chess player. Barry and Peter draw on interviews conducted with members of England's medal-winning elite squad of players and provide a template for chess improvement rooted in the practical wisdom of experienced chess players and coaches. They also include practical illustrative descriptions from the games and chess careers of both developing and leading players, and pull together themes and suggestions in a way which encourages readers to create their own trajectories for chess improvement.
Coach Yourself
Author: Neil McDonald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781945124
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A leading chess coach explains exactly how you can study the game in order to specifically improve your play.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781945124
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A leading chess coach explains exactly how you can study the game in order to specifically improve your play.
The Road to Chess Improvement
Author: Alex Yermolinsky
Publisher: Gambit Publications
ISBN: 9781901983241
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this exciting new book, a US Champion provides solutions to the real-life problem of improving one's chess. Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky, one of the strongest players in the US, passes on many of the insights he has gained over years of playing and teaching, steering the reader away from 'quick-fix' approaches, and focussing on the critical areas of chess understanding and over-the-board decision-making. A large part of this book discusses a variety of important opening set-ups, including methods for opposing off-beat but dangerous lines, such as the Grand Prix Attack. This entertainingly written book breaks new ground in many areas of chess understanding.
Publisher: Gambit Publications
ISBN: 9781901983241
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this exciting new book, a US Champion provides solutions to the real-life problem of improving one's chess. Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky, one of the strongest players in the US, passes on many of the insights he has gained over years of playing and teaching, steering the reader away from 'quick-fix' approaches, and focussing on the critical areas of chess understanding and over-the-board decision-making. A large part of this book discusses a variety of important opening set-ups, including methods for opposing off-beat but dangerous lines, such as the Grand Prix Attack. This entertainingly written book breaks new ground in many areas of chess understanding.
How Life Imitates Chess
Author: Garry Kasparov
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596918276
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over twenty years and is widely considered the greatest player that ever lived. In How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov distills the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Grandmaster to offer a primer on successful decision-making: how to evaluate opportunities, anticipate the future, devise winning strategies. He relates in a lively, original way all the fundamentals, from the nuts and bolts of strategy, evaluation, and preparation to the subtler, more human arts of developing a personal style and using memory, intuition, imagination and even fantasy. Kasparov takes us through the great matches of his career, including legendary duels against both man (Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov) and machine (IBM chess supercomputer Deep Blue), enhancing the lessons of his many experiences with examples from politics, literature, sports and military history. With candor, wisdom, and humor, Kasparov recounts his victories and his blunders, both from his years as a world-class competitor as well as his new life as a political leader in Russia. An inspiring book that combines unique strategic insight with personal memoir, How Life Imitates Chess is a glimpse inside the mind of one of today's greatest and most innovative thinkers.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596918276
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over twenty years and is widely considered the greatest player that ever lived. In How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov distills the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Grandmaster to offer a primer on successful decision-making: how to evaluate opportunities, anticipate the future, devise winning strategies. He relates in a lively, original way all the fundamentals, from the nuts and bolts of strategy, evaluation, and preparation to the subtler, more human arts of developing a personal style and using memory, intuition, imagination and even fantasy. Kasparov takes us through the great matches of his career, including legendary duels against both man (Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov) and machine (IBM chess supercomputer Deep Blue), enhancing the lessons of his many experiences with examples from politics, literature, sports and military history. With candor, wisdom, and humor, Kasparov recounts his victories and his blunders, both from his years as a world-class competitor as well as his new life as a political leader in Russia. An inspiring book that combines unique strategic insight with personal memoir, How Life Imitates Chess is a glimpse inside the mind of one of today's greatest and most innovative thinkers.
Pump Up Your Rating
Author: Axel Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907982736
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Any man in the street knows how to increase his physical strength, but among most chess players confusion reigns when it comes to improving their playing strength. Axel Smith's training methods have guided his friends, teammates and pupils to grandmaster norms and titles. Hard work will be required, but Axel Smith knows how you can Pump Up Your Rating.Every area of chess is covered - opening preparation, through middlegame play, to endgame technique. Smith delves into both the technical and psychological sides of chess, and shows how best to practise and improve.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907982736
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Any man in the street knows how to increase his physical strength, but among most chess players confusion reigns when it comes to improving their playing strength. Axel Smith's training methods have guided his friends, teammates and pupils to grandmaster norms and titles. Hard work will be required, but Axel Smith knows how you can Pump Up Your Rating.Every area of chess is covered - opening preparation, through middlegame play, to endgame technique. Smith delves into both the technical and psychological sides of chess, and shows how best to practise and improve.
Improve Your Chess Tactics
Author: Yakov Neishtadt
Publisher: New In Chess
ISBN: 9083378837
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
The upgraded 2024 edition of a modern classic
Publisher: New In Chess
ISBN: 9083378837
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
The upgraded 2024 edition of a modern classic
Improve Your Chess Now
Author: Jon Tisdall
Publisher: Everyman Chess
ISBN: 9781857441567
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In a strikingly original self-improvement manual, Jonathan Tisdall draws on his own experiences to explain why erratic results and painful setbacks occur, and shows how to institute a training program that can lift the player's game to new heights. Tisdall's improvement ideas will fire the imagination of players at all levels.
Publisher: Everyman Chess
ISBN: 9781857441567
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In a strikingly original self-improvement manual, Jonathan Tisdall draws on his own experiences to explain why erratic results and painful setbacks occur, and shows how to institute a training program that can lift the player's game to new heights. Tisdall's improvement ideas will fire the imagination of players at all levels.