Expand Your Chess Strategy

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Expand Your Chess Strategy have you reached a plateau in chess? Do you ever struggle to find a plan, or learn after a game that your chosen strategy was all wrong?

Expand Your Chess Strategy will dramatically enhance your ability in this vital area of chess, providing the key to unlock further improvement.

Take your results and rating to the next level and beyond!

Grandmaster Neil McDonald offers a comprehensive strategic toolkit, using carefully selected examples covering pawn breaks, attacking and defending,

how to optimise the value of your pieces, and much more. Expand Your Chess Strategy with this book, and take your results and rating to the next level and beyond!

Expand Your Chess Strategy

Neil McDonald has been a grandmaster for almost thirty years. An acclaimed author and sought-after coach, he is the ideal guide towards improvement in chess strategy.

Every player reaches a point in their chess adventure where their results plateau. Many years ago when I became stuck I carried out a rigorous examination of

my games and reached a simple conclusion: “I don’t use my pawns enough!” I was far too focused on piece play – perhaps because I was a big fan of

Mikhail Tal and thought the purpose of a game was to sac, sac, and mate? During my subsequent games I told myself to look out for pawn moves.

Most were of no value and quickly rejected, but occasionally there was a diamond among the rubbish: an essential pawn move which was previously hidden in plain sight.

These extra resources markedly improved my strategy: I could pinpoint moments in games where previously my plans would have fallen through, but now I was armed with pawn power.

What is the missing ingredient stopping your play reaching the next level? Perhaps your own pawn play needs work – for example, do you have a sufficient understanding

of restraint? And are you dynamic enough in exploiting the chance for a breakthrough?

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