ChessCafe 2009 Book of the Year!
The Road to Positional Advantage
This new 3rd edition has, besides various corrections and improvements, a new introduction and a brand-new chapter called ‘Total Control’. In this 35-page chapter Grooten adds the final instructive brick to his formidable, yet very accessible, building: inspired by Tigran Petrosian’s playing style he explains amateurs how to exploit small advantages. With a new set of exercises.
These are some of the comments posted by ChessCafe voters:
-- "My only vote goes to Herman Grooten's masterpiece, a class of its own"
-- "It's superb and I think Nimzo might now rest in peace. It's the new standard of middlegame strategy for all club players!"
SHORTLISTED: The Guardian 2009 Chess Book of the Year
Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what?
First find the right plan, then the good moves will follow!
With this book, International Master Herman Grooten presents to amateur players a complete and structured course on:
- how to recognize key characteristics in all types of positions
- how to make use of those characteristics to choose the right plan
- His teachings are based on the famous "Elements" of Wilhelm Steinitz, but Grooten has significantly expanded and up-dated the work of the first World Champion. He supplies many modern examples, tested in his own practice as a coach of talented youngsters.
- In Chess Strategy for Club Players you will learn the basic elements of positional understanding:
- -- pawn structure
- -- piece placement
- -- lead in development
- -- open files
- -- weaknesses
- -- space advantage
- -- king safety
- You will master the art of converting a temporary plus into other, more permanent advantages.
- The author also explains what to do when, in a given position, the basic principles seem to point in different directions. Each chapter of this fundamental primer ends with a set of highly instructive exercises.
- Herman Grooten, is an International Master and a chess coach with over 25 years of experience. Quite a few of his pupils have gone on to become grandmasters, among them Loek van Wely and Jan Werle.
- Jeremy Silman, US Chess Online:
- "If you want to be a better player, you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy. It may well be the crown jewel of your chess book collection!"
- From the foreword by Jan Timman:
- "A highly instructive book for readers who want to improve their chess skills."
- KARL Chess Magazine:
- "The entire presentation is extremely well done (..) A fantastic and challenging book for ambitious and advanced club players."
- Pete Tamburro, ChessLife:
- "Chess coaches will have a quality supply of superb examples and explanations, and self-motivated students will benefit immensely if they are over, say, 1800 in strength."
Pages 464
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