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Title: Excelling at Positional Chess by Jacob Aagaard ISBN: 1-85744-325-X Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A superb self-teaching guide for serious & dedicated players
Comment: Authoritatively written by an international chess master Jacob Aagaard, Excelling At Positional Chess is a technical proficient, in-depth, instructional guidebook specifically designed for intermediate and advanced chess players seeking to improve their strategy by mixing calculation and evaluation. Offering original exercises, numerous examples with diagrams, and enhanced with a wealth of fascinating insights, Excelling At Positional Chess is a superb self-teaching guide for serious and dedicated players of the game.
Rating: 4
Summary: Concise text plus lots of exercices with detailed solutions
Comment: I believe Aagaard gets right to the point- that creative problem solving-.learning to think for yourself (originality)- is far more important than strictly memorizing opening variations or rigidly approaching middlegame problems. While the bulk of this book is comprised of 100 positional exercises, the first few chapters sum up many key concepts of positional chess using carefully chosen examples. This book is much easier to read than the stuff Dvoretsky cranks out- Aagaard selects the critical ideas of trainers such as Dvoretsky and condenses them in a way so that a Class A player such as myself can absorb some really useful information without devoting a lifetime to the study of chess books. As Aagaard states, often positional chess (and the middlegame in general) is a difficult subject to write about because many of the topics are already part of a strong players subconcious thought, that these positional subjects are often learned from sheer experience anyway, and that putting these ideas into words would be redundant, but Aagaard has done a better job with this book than Reshevsky did in his Art of Positional Play. I dont have forever to pour through the rather superficial analysis of Reshevsky's 60 complete games in the Art book, when Aagaard provides me with enough signposts to follow, plus more than 100 positions displayed as exercises where I need to guess the correct plan and basically play out the rest of the game for a win- you can also use your chess computer to play against many of these positional exercises if you prefer direct involement. The detailed solutions give all of the moves up to the finish of each game. Players featured in this book include Karpov, Short, Khalifman, Timman, Gelfand and Svidler. Other books in the same vein include Marovic's new book Secrets of Positional Chess, which is useful for the last two chapters on rooks and minor pieces. Karpov's Best Games (Batsford 1996) would probably be a book likely to be suggested by Aagaard, along with Tal's Life and Games. A new tactics book that I like very much is The Magic of Chess Tactics by Meyer and Muller (Russell 2002), which is better than the entire Lev Alburt series of chess books, and replaces my Tactical Chess Endings by John Nunn!
Rating: 5
Summary: He does it again
Comment: I've been conditioned by Hollywood to expect a let down from anything labelled part II. This book though fully lives up to the high standard set by Aagaard's award winning first book "Excelling at chess". It will change the way you look at a chess position.
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Title: Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 by Garry Kasparov ISBN: 1857443306 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Secrets of Positional Chess by Drazen Marovic ISBN: 1901983730 Publisher: Gambit Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Chess Strategy in Action by John Watson ISBN: 1901983692 Publisher: Gambit Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Starting Out: the English by Neil McDonald ISBN: 1857443225 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Excelling at Chess by Jacob Aagaard ISBN: 1857442733 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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