Gaprindashvili Paata. Imagination in Chess: How to Think Creatively and Avoid Foolish Mistakes

Quality Chess, 2017. — 408 p. — ISBN13: 978-1907982354. In Thinking Inside the Box Jacob Aagaard describes his chess improvement philosophy, developed over more than twenty years of thinking about one question: How do we make better decisions at the chess board? As the final volume in the award-winning Grandmaster Preparation series, this book unifies the concepts of the...

Quality Chess, 2015. — 288 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-78483-006-9. Positional Decision Making in Chess offers a rare look into the mind of a top grandmaster. In his efforts to explain his way of thinking, Boris Gelfand focuses on such topics as the squeeze, space advantage, the transformation of pawn structures and the transformation of advantages. Based on examples from his own games...

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...

Quality Chess U.K., 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78483-051-9. In chess you cannot take your move back, but you can always return a misplaced piece to its former square at the cost of some time. Pawns on the other hand can never move backwards, making pawn moves truly permanent decisions. This irreversibility makes Pawn Play among the most difficult aspects of chess strategy,...

Batsford, 2013. — 439 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84994-070-2. Pawns form the “playing fields” of chess, a semipermanent “structure” that can determine whether a player wins — or loses. This major update to the classic guide to pawn structure, written by international Grandmaster Andrew Soltis, teaches readers how to handle their pawns. He explains where best to place them, which pawns to...

Quality Chess, 2012. — 305 p. — ISBN: 978-1-906552-46-6. Chess Evolution 2 continues Yusupov's award-winning instructional series. The Fundamentals series shows players the basic ideas they should know, then the Beyond the Basics series sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and...