Here are ten great reasons to buy this book.
1. The book discusses a vital chess skill that has received little attention in the chess literature, e.g., chess visualization.
2. It allows you to work on your visualization skills using real positions taken from real games, many played by international masters and grandmasters in tournaments located throughout the world. We don’t ask you to memorize the color of a particular square or visualize a Knight hop from a1 to all of the other squares on the chess board. The exercises involve real positions taken from real games!
3. The book contains 800 exercises! That’s a lot of exercises.
4. Those 800 exercises are organized in a logical and systematic manner throughout the 6 sections and 26 thematic chapters. The exercises in each chapter are arranged by the number of half-moves that you are asked to visualize. This means that the exercises get more difficult as you get deeper into each chapter, but it also means that you can identify the depth at which your vision gets hazy. We call this your ply depth barrier. Clearly identifying the length of the variations given in the exercises and indicating where they are located in the book (see the ply table) makes it easy to find the exercises you need to work on.
5. It’s personal. We help you identify your own personal ply depth barrier and offer three techniques for dealing with it – brute force, consolidation, and stretching.
6. Each chapter contains exercises that focus on one particular theme; thus each chapter receives in-depth coverage. Other books might mention a topic and give one or two exercises to illustrate their point. Not so here! Each chapter contains on average 30 exercises.
7. The themes covered are fresh and have not received in-depth coverage in the chess literature. At the same time the themes are very practical, as they occur over and over again in the games of masters and grandmasters.
8. The book contains 328 pages and measures nearly 7 x 10 inches (about 17.5 x 25 cm), which dwarfs many of the books on tactics available today. It’s a meaty book.
9. The lay-flat comb binding ensures that the book will always lie flat and never close on you if you take your hands off the pages. You can even double it up if you need to!
10. At about three cents per exercise, you can get these 800 exercises at a great price!
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1 comment:
Would this book work for a beginner? I play chess, but have never played a rated game. I feel that chess visualization would allow me to follow books, articles and annotations much better.
Thanks
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