Improve Your Positional Chess

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Improve Your Positional Chess

â€œHansen provides advice and ideas to show you what to look out for to evaluate positions relatively quickly and to help guide you to making correct decisions, both short-term and long-term.â€ - Mark Donlan, Chess Horizons

Throughout a game of chess, we must constantly make judgements and decisions that cannot be determined simply by calculation. We must then rely on our positional judgement. Good positional skills are primarily developed by experience, but they can also be learnt.

In this book, Carsten Hansen provides a wealth of advice and ideas that will help give readers a helping-hand up to new levels of positional understanding. Paramount in this discussion is the playerâ€™s need to weigh up positional elements at the board, and decide which are most important for the situation at hand.

Topics include: The Quest for Weaknesses; What is the Initiative?; Understanding Imbalances; The Relative Value of the Pieces; Decisions Regarding Pawn-Structures; Structural Weaknesses; Where and How to Attack.

The book is rounded off with exercises to test your understanding of the concepts discussed, together with full solutions.

â€œWhat Hansen excels at is choosing the right examples to illustrate his points - and providing illuminating words to make them accessible to the reader.â€ - Rick Kennedy, www.chessville.com

Carsten Hansen is a FIDE Master from Denmark who currently lives in the USA. He has a reputation for writing well-researched books on major chess topics, and is known to many through his painstaking book reviews on the Internet. This is his fourth book for Gambit.

â€œI figure to put about 20 Elo points on to my grade (2433) by the time Iâ€™ve finished; thatâ€™s how good it is. I canâ€™t really say more than that. Oh, and I am enjoying reading it!â€ - IM Andrew Martin, Seagaardâ€™s Reviews

â€œReaders will learn not only much about important positional aspects, like exploiting a structural weakness, from this work, but also much about the important aspect of positional sacrifices, something which is often not well understood at club level. For all those looking to improve their overall chess strength, and especially their positional understanding, this is highly recommended.â€ - Richard Palliser, www.yorkshirechess.org.uk

Country	USA
Author	Carsten Hansen
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781911465072
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Gambit Publications
Manufacturer	Gambit Publications
NumberOfPages	837
PublicationDate	2016-10-18
Publisher	Gambit Publications
ReleaseDate	2016-10-18
Studio	Gambit Publications

Improve Your Positional Chess

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