Grooten Herman. Chess Strategy for Club Players

New In Chess, 2016. — 192 p. If you want to improve at chess, you must know the characteristics of typical pawn formations. Understanding the pawn structure is a key tool when you are evaluating a position on the board. One simple pawn move can ruin your position or win the game. Post-beginners should know the basic essentials of chess structures and that is what this modern...

New In Chess, 2012. — 670 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-334-2. Instruction + exercises according to the old Soviet Chess School.The best advice for chess players who want to improve quickly is: get better at tactics! Because the vast majority of amateur games is decided through tactics you will immediately start beating more opponents when you improve your tactical skills.Improve Your...

Thinkers Publishing, 2017. — 228 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-001-3. After his outstanding book from 2008, 'Winning Chess Middlegames', Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov takes us a step further into his dungeon of middlegame skills. In his well known style, Sokolov focuses on the different aspects of the complex middlegame. As usual Ivan breaks new ground and provides us with a variety of...

New In Chess, 2013. — 257 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-431-8. The sacrifice is one of the most beautiful, rewarding and complex aspects of chess. During a game the decision to give up material in order to get an advantage is probably the most difficult one a player has to take. Often, you have to burn your bridges without being able to fully calculate the consequences. Risks and rewards...

New In Chess, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN: 9789056917975. In chess, as in repair or construction jobs in and around the house, you will not get very far without the right equipment. If you want to win more games you simply need the right tools. Unfortunately, most amateur chess players have no toolbox to speak of. What’s more, they don’t even know which tools they actually need. Or what...

New in Chess, 2020. — 304 p. — ISBN: 9789056919269. Foreword by Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana. If you want to improve your middlegame play, you will have to develop a FEEL for positions. That's what Boris Zlotnik has been stressing during his long and rich trainer's career. Clicking through concrete variations (a popular pastime in the computer era) is not enough. To guide your...