Chess Strategy for Club Players: The Road to Positional Advantage (New in Chess) - Softcover

Grooten, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9056917161 ISBN 13: 9789056917166

Publisher: New In Chess, 2017

Synopsis

Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what? With this new edition of his award winning 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 and 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 updated 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 and 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.

This new 3rd edition has, besides various corrections and improvements, a new introduction and a brand-new chapter called ‘Total Control’ with new exercises.

About this title

About the Author

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. His equally bestselling follow-up primer ‘Attacking Chess for Club Players’ was published in 2016.

Review

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! (Jeremy Silman, International Master, author of "How to Reasses Your Chess")

The entire presentation is extremely well done. A fantastic and challenging book for ambitious and advanced club players. (KARL Magazine)

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. (Pete Tamburro, State of New Jersey, Award-winning Educator Chess Life)

One of my three favorite chess teaching books. Grooten supplies nice examples and great explanation in a very structured way. (Jan Van De Mortel, Chess Education Partners, Chicago, IL)

This book will certainly improve your middlegame and boost your results. (Gary Lane, International Master Rochade Europa Magazine)

An excellent teaching tool with over 400 pages of clear instruction. (Joe Petrolito)

The depth is very impressive, with lucidity and thoroughness going hand in hand. (Marshtower Chess Reviews)

Excellent. Literally hundreds of instructive examples. (Paul Motwani, Chess Grandmaster)

An outstanding positional primer. (Steve Goldberg ChessCafe.com)

Edition details

• Publisher: New In Chess
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 9056917161
• ISBN 13: 9789056917166
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 432