- Paperback: 191 pages
- Publisher: Collier Books (Dec 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0020280904
- ISBN-13: 978-0020280903
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,197,030 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Paperback
This book contains a series of 30 increasingly complex positions testing positional play, planning and tactics. For each position three different detailed plans are offered. You have to choose the correct plan and/or refute the incorrect plans. Sounds daunting? Well, with a few example games the authors also help you learn to analyze, plan and carry out the plan. The authors recommend spending about 30 minutes analyzing each test position without moving the pieces. I haven't come across another book like this and IMHO this book is much more useful than the usual 100's of mate in 2,3,4 books.
Format:Paperback
Firstly: such a bad title! This is SO much better than the slew of 'Test your...'/'Improve your...' books that perennially swamp the chess shelves. This is one of the best books I've read to deal with the proper knitting together of strategic and tactical thinking OTB. The heart of the book is the theoretical first section, 'How should I think?', in which the authors use seven games from their own praxis to show the reader how to analyse the strategic elements of the position, synthesise them to form a plan, and then verify that plan tactically. These first sixty or so pages are pure gold and put virtually every other middlegame text to shame. After this comes the bulk of the book - thirty games in which the reader plays through the game score until he reaches the test position and is then invited to analyse and choose between three possible solutions. These thirty positions hardly exhaust the range of possible middlegame plans that can occur but provide a wide range of position types (IQPs, hanging pawns, Carlsbad structures etc.) to apply your new-found analytical skills to. These really feel like carefully crafted lessons from real chess masters (and master teachers), designed to pack as much knowledge as possible into a digestible whole. TYPP rapidly seems to be becoming a rarity, so if you can find a copy at a reasonable price then snap it up and treat yourself to some wonderful lessons in real chess thinking.
Format:Paperback
I would broadly agree with the review by 'A Customer' but would add that all the examples are from games played by the masters which you can normally find on the web and play through if you don't have a board handy. To benefit from this book I would guess that you would need an ECF grade > 100 ( ELO > 1450) it is not a book for a complete beginner.
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