Chess Tips for the Improving Player

Descripción

Chess Tips for the Improving Player gives practical advice for club players who want to take the next step towards chess mastery. Amatzia Avni looks at life from an unusual angle. His approach is far more creative than merely offering the usual tips such as “develop your pieces” and “control the centre”.

Chess Tips for the Improving Player

Instead of repeating clichés seen before in countless books, the author scrutinized a huge number of chess positions, asking himself, ‘What can be learned from them?’
The reader can now benefit from Avni’s painstaking efforts.

Amatzia Avni

This work is a collection of tips and practical advice aimed at assisting the reader in improving his play.
I approached the task guided by two basic principles.
Firstly, I wished to address an audience of above-beginner level. Hence, advice such as ‘develop your pieces’, ‘knights before bishops’, ‘control the centre’, ‘check that your pieces are defended’, ‘penetrate your opponent’s second rank with your rooks’, and other tips of this kind were out. I assumed the reader were familiar with them.

Secondly, I wished the content to be as fresh as possible; to look at things from an unusual angle. So instead of repeating clichés, I scrutinized an extraordinarily large number of positions, asking myself ‘what is there to be learned from them’.

Chess Tips for the Improving Player

Instead of stating a rule and then looking for appropriate diagrams to illustrate it, I worked the other way around, from examples towards generalizations. In this way I was not tying myself to old axioms (although repeating the wisdom of our chess ancestors on occasion was inevitable). It was laborious work, but I hope that the result justifies it.

Amatzia Avni is an Israeli psychologist who is a FIDE Master both over-the-board and of composition. He has written several original and critically acclaimed books. This is his first book for Quality Chess.

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