Product Description

Self-improvement manual for players who wish to develop their skills.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #284546 in Books
• Published on: 1997-10-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

great training
This book offers you techniques to improve your training. Among the techniques I found many useful, such as the blindfold training to increase awareness of the chess board, training calculation through using the stepping stone method and pattern recognition, and on studying position types, also Tisdall recommends that you study playing bad positions because we will all at some point get into a bad position. Reading the book will improve your game and give you the guidence you may need to start a training method that will improve your game.

An Outstanding Book
I'm a little over half-way through this book, so maybe I'm not fully qualified to review it. However, let me say this: I am a USCF Expert, I've been playing chess for over thirty years, and I've read at least three hundred chess books. This is, quite simply, one of the best chess books I have ever read. If you're looking for an instructive chess book with some new ideas in it, this book is for you. If there's a bad part, I haven't found it yet.

Great book
I've read a good deal of chess books,about 100:s of them. I can say that this is one of the best books i've ever red. It's interesting, entartaining and there's a lot of wisdom and stuff you won't find in any other chess book. The book contains mostly verbal explanation on various topics but for this sake it's not a beginners book. The book can be red by any chessplayer no matter what ranking or strenght he or she posesses. It relates to important topics like calculation and comes with some great advice how to visualize the chessboard in a proper way. I don't know if the author has written any other chessbook, if he has I would buy it straight away. This is pure quality and worth every penny of yours. The only bad thing I have to say about it, is that i think it's a unworthy title. I think that this book is less known among chessreading players. I would like to change that because this is one of the best chessbooks ever written... Have a fun and intresting readingsession!