Techniques of Positional Play: 45 Practical Methods to Gain the Upper Hand in Chess

Excellent book on middle game. It is must for player rating 1800 above. For player rating below I recommend chess training for post beginners.

okSem problemas .tempo ótimo e bom estado. Sem mais consideraçôes sobre o mesmo, pois ainda não li o livro.

New in Chess published an excellent book called Chess training for post begginers, which is an excellent book for those looking to start studying chess from a positional point of view. What I found lacking in that book was the few excercises that came with it after each topic. Well since it was overall a great book I decided to order this book. What I noticed is that this books covers topics in the Chess Training book but builds on them as well as cover some other topics. So its like a level two of the Chess Training for post begginers. Overall this is a great book. You will cover positional ideas in chess that come into play many times but often miss by players who only think tactically. What I mean is lots of time people can calculate long force lines and find a good move, but when forced lines dont exist they feel stuck. More advance players already know that if there are no readily available tactics, to look for positional moves, like restricting an enemy piece on one side of the board and then attacking on the otther wing. .this book will cover ideas like that as well as other positional ideas like when to exchange a piece when not to, who to take advantage of colors (eg when the position dictactes a weakness on an opponents color) and many more topics. .this is a great book for move advance players looking to get into positional understanding of chess. If this is your first time diving into positional chess you may want to start with Chess training for Post beginners or My system before jumping into this book, as either of those two books will give you a foundation and this book will build on it. Again i see this book as a part two of the other book written by New in Chess. So if you liked the other book you will like this one too, as it builds on the that books and adds a few more topics.

C'est un livre pour joueur d’échecs de club (niveau 1700 ELO et plus)Beaucoup de choses nouvelles pour le joueur moyen, qui deviennent vite claires grâce aux exemples bien choisis et bien commentésLa lecture des cas pratiques ("techniques") permet de comprendre comment des coups "positionnels" permettent d'entrer dans des finales supérieures et/ou d'imposer des solutions tactiques aboutissant au gain

Silman books, which I love, cover the broad strategies. Techniques from positional play covers a lot of not very well known mini-strategies, or some deeper parts or fragments of well known chess strategies. Fairly easy to follow considering the deep concepts and lots of examples. I'm really pleased I bought this book and look forward to using some of the techniques in games.