Chess Strategy

Acclaimed author and grandmaster Paul Motwani discusses four elements of successful chess (strategy, tactics, attack, reaction) with the same wit and clarity that has characterised his previous writings on the game. Here he applies his original, mnemonic-based approach to the strategy and tactics of attack, defence and counterattack.

An experienced trainer and grandmaster explains key principles of chess strategy and thinking methods in chess. His 'recipes' include: tactical ideas in the middlegame; liquidation to the endgame; the technique of analysing variations; inverted thinking in chess.

Books on chess exercises are usually about tactics. But in most of the positions that you think about during a game, there is no tactical solution. What you are doing most of the time is trying to find a way to improve your position or weaken your opponent's, by applying strategic rules.

If you've always wanted to be the guy that checkmates friends and strangers alike during a game of chess but the fact that you don't really understand the game inside out like the pros do has always made that impossible to achieve, keep reading…

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