Descripción

Street Smart Chess is an expert guide to scoring more points at the chessboard. When does it pay off to play hard for a win? Or safe for a draw? And how do you adapt your playing style

accordingly?

Street Smart Chess

GM Axel Smith answers these questions, and more, by using a world-class player as a model for each chapter. Learn how Magnus Carlsen grinds out wins from level positions; how David

Navara beats lower- rated opponents, and how Baskaran Adhiban beats higher-rated ones! Or serve-and- volley in the opening like Peter Heine Nielsen.

 

Playing well is a good start in chess, but you also need to be Street Smart. Axel Smith is the award-winning author of The Woodpecker Method, Pump Up Your Rating and e Poison, which

were all enthusiastically received by readers and reviewers. Using the Woodpecker as part of his training, as an adult he improved from a rating of 2100 to becoming a Grandmaster.

Axel Smith (born 27 June 1986) is a Swedish chess player and author. Smith earned the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2016.

Street Smart Chess

Axel Smith is a Swedish chess player and author. Smith earned the FIDE title of Grandmaster in 2016. He is the author or co-author of several chess books including Pump Up Your Rating

and The Woodpecker Method.

He is the author or co-author of several chess books including Pump Up Your Rating (Quality Chess, 2013) and The Woodpecker Method (Quality Chess, 2018).

Reviews

“Swedish Grandmaster Axel Smith’s fourth book for Quality Chess is aimed at achieving better practical results for the tournament player… While Smith is the author of this book, he is by no

means the sole contributor to its content with Baskaran Adhiban, David Navar, Aryan Tari, Bu Xiangzhi, Ulf Andersson, Laurent Fressinet and Peter Heine Nielsen all part of the project. Each

of these world class Grandmasters has interesting things to say.

Street Smart Chess is full of well annotated games and exercises that support the points the author and contributors are trying to make. The level of the content varies, but this book is primarily

aimed at players from 2000-2300, though I suspect even stronger players will find much of interest.”

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