Chess Strategy for Club Players: The Road to Positional Advantage

Grooten, Herman

ISBN 10: 9056917161 / ISBN 13: 9789056917166

Published by New in Chess, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chess Strategy for Club Players: The Road to Positional Advantage
• Publisher: New in Chess
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9056917161
• ISBN 13: 9789056917166
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Like New

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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 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.