The Improving Chess Thinker
Title | The Improving Chess Thinker PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Heisman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-06-07 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9781936277483 |
In an guide to developing a more effective thinking process for chess, an instructor evaluates how players at all levels approach analytical positions and offers lessons based on his findings to help players avoid typical flaws.
A Guide to Chess Improvement
Title | A Guide to Chess Improvement PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Heisman |
Publisher | Gloucester Publishers Plc |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Chess |
ISBN | 9781857446494 |
This book features the very best of Dan Heisman's multi-award winning chess column Novice Nook and is full of valuable instruction, insight and practical advice on a wide range of key chess subjects.
The World's Most Instructive Amateur Game Book
Title | The World's Most Instructive Amateur Game Book PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Heisman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9781936277438 |
Teaches amateur chess players how to improve their chess skills so they can become better players.
Universal Chess Training
Title | Universal Chess Training PDF eBook |
Author | Wojciech Moranda |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 2020-12-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789492510907 |
Are you struggling with your chess development? While dedicating hours and hours on improving your craft, your rating simply does not want to move upwards? Spending loads of money on chess books and DVDs, but feeling no real improvement at all? No worries - the book that you are holding in your hands might represent a game changer! Years of coaching experience as well as independent research has allowed the author to identify the key skills that will enhance the progress of just about any player rated between 1600 and 2500. Becoming a strong chess thinker is namely not only reserved exclusively for elite players, but actually constitutes the cornerstone of chess training, being no less important than memorizing opening theory, acquiring middlegame knowledge or practicing endgames. By studying this book, you will: - learn how to universally deal with any position you might encounter in your games, even if you happen to see it for the first time in your life, - have the opportunity to solve 90 unique, hand-picked puzzles, extensively annotated and peculiarly organised for the Readers' optimal learning effect, - gain access to more than 300 pages of original grandmaster thoughts and advice, leaving you awestruck and hungry for more afterwards!
Looking for Trouble
Title | Looking for Trouble PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Heisman |
Publisher | SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2014-03-28 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 1936490862 |
Identify and Deal with Threats! This book is written to address and underemphasized area of chess training and study, the identification of and reaction to threats. For beginning and intermediate-level players, the study of tactics is paramount. Almost all tactics books take the approach of providing a position where there is a forced win, checkmate, or draw. However Looking for Trouble – now in a revised and enlarged second edition – takes a different tack. It helps you to recognize threats by providing over 300 problems in which you focus on identifying and meeting threats in the opening, middlegame and endgame. The author’s clear explanations are presented in a manner that should greatly benefit players of all levels.
The Improving Annotator
Title | The Improving Annotator PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Heisman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9781936277049 |
Annotating your own games can help you to play better chess. By examining the choices you made during the game and how they turned out you can pinpoint the flaws in your thinking process so that you can work on them. Chess master, author, and renowned teacher Dan Heisman shows you the whys and the hows of annotating your games. Using entertaining clashes from four decades of tournament play, Heisman traces his own development as a player and analyst, illustrating how his method works in practice.
Back to Basics: Tactics
Title | Back to Basics: Tactics PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Heisman |
Publisher | SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 2011-02-02 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 1936490145 |
Chess Tactics Can Be Fun! This book is an introduction to the various kinds of basic chess tactics. With instructional material, examples, and problems of all types, the subject of chess tactics is covered comprehensively. There are approximately 500 examples ranging from too easy to very difficult! Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun! This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about - and benefiting from - the recurring patterns of tactics. It is well established that the study of basic tactics is probably the single most important thing any beginner can do to improve at chess. This book will help you do that!