The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques From A to Z

by Jeremy Silman, Jeremy Silman (Introduction)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

A literal dictionary of chess strategy, this is perfect for anyone in your life eager to make the jump from amateur to master. This is a preferred tool of World Champions, which is all the endorsement it needs.

The Complete Book of Chess Strategy has sold over 100,000 copies.

An easy-to-understand guide to chess strategy—conceptual planning—has always been the amateur’s dream. The Complete Book of Chess Strategy makes that dream a reality. This comprehensive guide in dictionary form, the first of its kind, makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength. Each strategic concept is listed alphabetically and followed by a clear, easy-to-absorb explanation accompanied by examples of how this strategy is used in practice.

World Champions such as Steinitz, Capablanca, Petrosian, Fischer, and Karpov have used these strategies in virtually all of their games. Now you can arm yourself with their weapons. As you incorporate these weapons into your own play, they will enrich your appreciation of the game and lead you to one beautiful victory after another.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781890085018
Publisher:	Silman-James Press
Publication date:	11/01/1997
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	360
Sales rank:	24,827
Product dimensions:	6.05(w) x 8.97(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

Jeremy Silman is an International Master and a world-class teacher, writer, and player who has won the American Open, the National Open, and the U.S. Open. Considered by many to be the game’s preeminent instructive writer, he is the author of over thirty-seven books, including Silman’s Complete Endgame Course, The Amateur’s Mind, The Complete Book of Chess Strategy, and The Reassess Your Chess Workbook. His website (www.jeremysilman.com) offers fans of the game instruction, book reviews, theoretical articles, and details of his work in the creation of the chess scene in the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Editorial Reviews

This book has everything you will ever need to know about the basic building blocks of chess strategy, tactics, and psychology.”
—Tal Shaed, International Grandmaster

“Jeremy Silman is the most instructional writer that I’ve ever had the pleasure to read.”
—Yasser Seirawan, International Grandmaster, World Championship contender, and three-time U.S. Champion

From the Publisher