Waterstones Mastering Chess Strategy
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Price: £19.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: This book provides a basic foundation of strategy in all three phases of chess - the opening, middlegame and endgame - as well as an abundance of carefully selected exercises to monitor progress. Waterstones Mastering Chess Strategy - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781857446487
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ISBN: 9781857446487
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Author: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5
Review: I nougat this book along with The two others in The serie in order to improve my gameplay. Just reading The first chapter I'm amazed how much I learned from it! The book contains a lot ofta exercises to put in practice what u just learned, and they are very fun to do and highly challenging! I would recomend this book to anyone who'm which to seriosly improve in chess
Author: P
Rating: 2
Review: The book is organize into two parts. The first teaches what it is trying to get across be presenting many many examples on its various topics. Topics are organized by chapter, with the first chapter giving an excellent roadmap for what will be covered. The last 200-ish pages are quizzes/puzzles intended to have the reader apply what is learned, with an ‘answer’ to each provided in the final section of the book. For me, the best part of the book was the puzzles. They are hard enough to get you to think, yet easy enough so that you have a shot at getting the right answer. That are organized by chapter and subsection, and greatly aid in understanding the material. The main part of the book is composed almost completely with examples intended to show the principles being taught. They are heavy into chess notation and light on verbiage. They generally begin ~10-15 moves into the game (real games), providing the moves, some text, variants, and a chessboard image every 6-8 moves. What they do not provide is an introduction as to what principle the author is trying to get across to you. You have to figure that out for yourself by puzzling over the material. For example, the principles of “improving bishop positioning” comes down to grabbing long diagonals. If you bishop is on one, great, and if not, then move to one or create one. To figure this out you need to dig through 20 pages of chess notation. To me, the book would have been better if it was about 150 pages shorter, with much shorter examples clearly introduced, clearly illustrated, and focusing on just enough of the game to make its point. As is, the book will be a long long looooooong slog that I cannot foresee putting myself through.
