Amazon rating = 5 stars!
Publisher: Everyman Chess - Chess.com blog on how this book was made
A compendium of my best award-winning columns written for adults who wish to improve. Included are 3 new columns (never to be published on the web), extensively updated material and references, amalgamated discussions, and corrected analysis!
You can read the entire set of original columns via my Novice Nook web page links, but this book puts together information that single columns cannot (unless you read all the links). Thanks to Mike Montgomery for his thorough Q&A!
Shiv Sankaranarayanan: "...this has got to be the 'most helpful chess book that doesn't leverage on annotated Master games for instructional purposes.'"
Steven R: "On Christmas of 2016, my brother gave to me as a gift the Chess Thinker. I found it very interesting. Shortly after that I purchased your guide to chess improvement. It was the best book I ever read. I could not put it down, I was 52 years old and had not played chess in 15 years and although I have always loved chess it had been a long time since I was excited about chess, "
Publisher: Everyman Chess - Chess.com blog on how this book was made
A compendium of my best award-winning columns written for adults who wish to improve. Included are 3 new columns (never to be published on the web), extensively updated material and references, amalgamated discussions, and corrected analysis!
You can read the entire set of original columns via my Novice Nook web page links, but this book puts together information that single columns cannot (unless you read all the links). Thanks to Mike Montgomery for his thorough Q&A!
Shiv Sankaranarayanan: "...this has got to be the 'most helpful chess book that doesn't leverage on annotated Master games for instructional purposes.'"
Steven R: "On Christmas of 2016, my brother gave to me as a gift the Chess Thinker. I found it very interesting. Shortly after that I purchased your guide to chess improvement. It was the best book I ever read. I could not put it down, I was 52 years old and had not played chess in 15 years and although I have always loved chess it had been a long time since I was excited about chess, "