Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player (Comprehensive Chess Course Series)

A series of chess lessons which take the mystery out of long-term planning in chess. Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player is the fifth volume in Grandmaster Lev Alburt's Comprehensive Chess Course series. Endorsed by world champion Garry Kasparov as revealing "the once-secret Russian method of chess training," this uses only materials and techniques that worked well in the former USSR. It contains hundreds of strikingly beautiful positions arranged by difficulty and designed to sharpen tactical recognition and vision. Nothing is left to chance in this work. All materials have already shown their worth in Russian chess instruction.

Grandmaster Lev Alburt, a three-time U.S. chess champion, has spent years translating secret lesson plans used to produce a long line of Soviet world champions. His "Comprehensive Chess Course" series is the result. Alburt lives in New York City and teaches at the Chess Information and Research Center. Grandmaster Sam Palatnik is a former captain of the Ukrainian squad that recently won the world team championship ahead of the United States and Russia.