<p>Have there been times during a chess game when you have calculated a position for half an hour, only to find out that most of what you were thinking about was of little use? If you have not, maybe the only way to improve your calculation is to upgrade your processor. But if you are human, then this book will offer you practical advice and an effective training plan to think differently and make decisions far more efficiently. In Calculation thinking methods such as Candidates, Combinations, Prophylaxis, Comparison, Elimination, Intermediate Moves, Imagination and Traps are explained to the reader, and ownership of them is offered through a carefully selected series of exercises.<br />
“There is no shortcut to the grandmaster title, but there is a well-known route that many people have walked over the years. Jacob offers to guide you on part of this journey and I hope you will take him up on the offer.” From the foreword by Boris Gelfand</p>

Calculation: Grandmaster Preparation

Humor & Entertainment

Aagaard, Jacob

Puzzles & Games

Quality Chess

<p><div><i>Endgame Labyrinths</i> presents the reader with 1002 challenging chess studies, selected and truncated with their usefulness for the practical player in mind. It is common for studies to be extended by less interesting maneuvers or by incomprehensible sequences, before the main themes come into play. The studies in this book have been pruned to leave the reader with 1002 clear and solvable challenges.</div> <div><br /> <br /></div> <div>A few years of extensive selection, analysis, reselection, reanalysis and refining have gone into putting together the study book for the practical player with the most value ever.</div></p>

Endgame Labyrinths: Grandmaster Training

Nielsen, Steffen

Endgame Labyrinths

<p>The most hated cliché in chess is: And the rest is a matter of technique. In&nbsp;A Matter of Endgame Technique&nbsp;Grandmaster&nbsp;Jacob Aagaard&nbsp;deals with one of the few things chessplayers hate even more - losing a winning position. No serious chessplayer is new to the misery of spoiling hours of hard work in a few minutes...A Matter of Endgame Technique&nbsp;offers the second-best happiness - the misfortune of others - as well as deep explanation of the underlying patterns of how and why we misplay winning endgames. At just under 900 pages, this hardcover book is actually six books in one, explaining the technical and practical areas of chess endgames plainly, simply and deeply. Endgame theory is well covered elsewhere; this book is all about technique and devoid of material to memorise.</p>

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Castellanos, Renier

Mastering Chess Exchanges (Quality Chess)

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