The Shereshevsky Method to Improve in Chess: From Club Player to Master [Paperback]

A good starting point for ambitious players who want to work on their play in a structured way. Shereshevsky covers the most important elements of the game, from the opening through the endgame. A compendium of the author's famous teaching methods, complete with modern developments. A more than excellent instruction book This is such a good book. There is certainly enough new material on which to base an entire second volume (..) Well done, New In Chess! Now sign up the author for another book, as soon as possible. New In Chess scored a bit of coup getting this book. Two Soviet Classics reimagined as one, and then some...Part Three is called 'From the 20th Century to the 21st', and it has an awful lot of absolute gems contained within. The author starts with a segment about the current status of chess players and trainers. From there he goes on to write essays on chess books, citing works by other authors covering topics such as how to properly calculate variations, the perils of laziness at the board, the Dorfman method, and many others...Reading Part Three can inspire you to dig into the works of other authors based on the recommendations given by Shereshevsky. This book is a must for all chess trainers and chess players who wish to improve their performance, because it covers all of the skills a good chess player needs. Legendary Byelorussian chess coach Mikhail Shereshevsky has created a totally reworked compendium of his acclaimed classics Endgames Strategy and The Soviet Chess Conveyor, with many new examples and exercises. Furthermore, he has added a new and highly effective approach on how to calculate variations. Club players all over the world have now access to Shereshevskys famous training programme in one volume and can learn how to build an opening repertoire, how to work with the chess classics to maximum benefit, how to master the most important endgame principles and how to effectively and efficiently calculate variations. The ShereshevslsW