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Maximize Your Chess Potential! Learn to study more effectively Dan Heisman has been teaching chess for over 50 years and has been doing so full-time since 1996. He therefore knows very well what kind of advice actually helps players improve. This book is a distillation of that advice.

Maximize Your Chess Potential!

The book is based around his X (twitter) column «Chess tip of the day» which has been running since 2009 and features over 4,000 tips. The most useful advice has been distilled into 164 tips that contain additional helpful material, including illustrative stories and many diagrams with instructive play.

Dan Heisman

These tips represent ways to highlight and address the most common problems experienced by chess enthusiasts of all levels. They also suggest ways to mitigate or even avoid these these problems entirely and by doing so improve their chess play and learn to study more effectively. The tips lean towards general improvement rather than focusing on specific positions.

Maximize Your Chess Potential!

The topics addressed include: general improvement, thought processes, psychology, tactics, safety, positional concepts, strategy, openings and endgames.

In 2009 I was hearing more and more about the concept of social media. To me it seemed a way of using the World Wide Web to communicate quickly, and simultaneously, with many

people all over the planet with similar interests. As a chess instructor and author, I asked myself: ‘How can I best make use of social media to help as many prospective improving

chess players as possible?’ I came across Twitter and decided that every day I could publish a chess ‘tip’ and everyone could read it, benefit, and/or comment.

Maximize Your Chess Potential!

I joined Twitter in 2009 and, since 2011, have been publishing a Chess Tip of the Day at www.twitter.com/danheisman. If you go to that URL on a browser and scroll down,

you can find about 4,000 chess ‘tips’, and growing by one every day. I do tweet about other things on Twitter, so I differentiate my tips by starting them with an abbreviated

month/ day, e.g. M17 = May 17 or N8 = November 8. In this book the dates are irrelevant, so they have been removed.

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