Perfect Your Chess

Description

The tactics book that works on what the others do not

There are many tactics books that teach you to calculate combinations once you already know they are there. Perfect Your Chess works on the harder problem: how to act when you do not know whether a combination exists, when you have to decide between continuing calmly or launching a speculative sacrifice, when the calculation tree has too many branches to go through them all. In those positions, which represent the majority of real games, the player needs judgment, not just calculation. And that judgment is what this book teaches.

Volokitin contributes his own games as the primary material: the reader accesses the real thought processes of a grandmaster at the board, not artificially constructed positions designed to illustrate a concept.

Who is this book for?

• Intermediate players who solve tactics exercises well but get lost in games when the position does not call for a combination
• Advanced players who want to improve their judgment in complex positions with multiple valid options
• Coaches seeking material for working on tactical decision-making in unforced positions

Technical details

• Authors: Andrei Volokitin and Vladimir Grabinsky
• Publisher: La Casa del Ajedrez
• ISBN: 9788492517091
• Pages: 192
• Language: Spanish
• Level: Intermediate to Advanced

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