Gain the advantage over your opponent with easy-to-remember strategies from one of the world's top chess players! Strategy - it's 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! In this book, 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 opponent's every move; and position yourself for a winning endgame. Diagrams throughout the book illustrate game positions, and you'll meet history's greatest chess strategies - learning 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.
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"Seirawan does a great job with this book."--"Chesscorner.com"
"These two books will teach you enough to beat most of your friends and family and all the kids on your block."--Evan Kreider, "ChessPraxis"
"These two books will teach you enough to beat most of your friends and family and all the kids on your block."--Evan Kreider, "ChessPraxis"
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Yasser Seirawan is one of the top-ranked chess players in the USA and was the first American candidate for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer. He is a four-time US Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion and an ten-time member of the US Chess Olympiad team. Hi achievements distinguish him as one of only a handful of players to defeat world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament play.
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
By Mr AI
Format:Paperback
I fit the description of the audience of this book perfectly. I understood how to move the pieces, I could look ahead a few moves. I even knew a few of the basic opening patterns. But I was missing the underlying structure.
This book really helped me understand the different roles of each piece. He works through, a piece at a time, and I learned things from each.
I suspect that alone this book isn't perfect. It keeps referring to the importance of Tactics, and I bought it along with the Tactics book in the same series. Together they're formidable, however, and I definitely feel I've improved.
I'd recommend this book to anyone who wants to feel like their beginning to play real chess, rather than moving the pieces around. I suspect for a player who plays regularly this is yesterday's news, but it met my needs perfectly.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
Anyone who is serious about learning to play chess well should begin with Seirawan's Winning Chess series. I had heard good things about it, so I bought this series for my wife. I figured that it would all be too simple for me, but decided to skim through the books quickly anyway. I learned quit a bit from both the Tactics and Strategies books. Seirawan's system is very similar to the system that co-author Silman teaches in his more advanced How To Reassess Your Chess (which would be the perfect book to read after finishing the Seirawan series). I learned things from Strategies that I hadn't learned from Reassess; and Tactics goes into greater, very helpful detail about setting up and executing tactics and combinations. This is a great series, I recommend it strongly to any player rated below 1600.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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After studying openings, tactics, and checkmating techniques, I found this book to be what I needed to learn how to get from the opening to the endgame and how to set up for tactics. GM Seirawan's entertaining style is fun to read and study.
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A good buy
A really good book for a not very good player. Will probably buy some more in the series at a later date.
Published on 23 April 2011 by Uday
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A decent book but a bit disappointing
I read this off the back of his earlier "Tactics" book. I must admit I loved the Tactics book and found it excellent for a med/advanced beginner like myself but this one didn't... Read more
Published on 21 May 2010 by T. Page
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Great Book
All 5 books in the series are extremely good. Every beginning chess player should read these book before all others: Playing Winning Chess, Winning Chess Openings, Winning Chess... Read more
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