Grandmaster Preparation – Calculation

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Grandmaster Preparation- Calculation have there been times during a 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.

Grandmaster Preparation- Calculation

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.

 

“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

Grandmaster Preparation- Calculation

Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard won the British Championship at his first and only attempt. He has received the Guardian, ECF and ChessCafe Book of the Year awards and the

FIDE Senior Trainer title. His training material is used by amateurs and grandmasters alike.

The Grandmaster Preparation- Calculation series is aimed at ambitious players.

Jacob Aagaard

Ever since I was a junior I have been a chess trainer. At times my dissatisfaction with the conditions for trainers has caused me to be a player as well; and not without some success.

But at the end of the day I have had to accept that my destiny is not to feel comfortable on the stage, but rather in the anonymity of the locker room.

I have always cared more for the results of my students than my own, just as I have always had lots of passion for training others, but none for training myself.

Over the years I have developed some of the skills necessary to become a decent trainer, not least of all the ability to earn a living by other means!

Among other things this means I have become a chess writer. From the moment I started taking pride in my work, I have developed into a not entirely bad one,

to the degree where I am finally comfortable enough to publish this series of books, which I have been dreaming about for years.

 

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