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A concise guide to goal-oriented chess thinking
Forming a plan is the most important goal of logical chess thought. Without a good plan, we are reduced to tactical opportunism, rather than harnessing the power of our pieces to achieve specific tasks and make methodical progress towards victory.
However, few chess-players - even those fortunate enough to have a trainer - develop a disciplined approach to planning. In this book, one of the world’s leading chess teachers provides step-by-step guidelines for identifying the features of a position onto which our strategy should be latched. He adopts a thoroughly modern approach, recognizing that the opponent will have his own plans and be attempting to disrupt ours. The effectiveness of Kosikov’s methods - in particular the STOPS algorithm - is shown by his pupils’ over-the-board proficiency.
Having presented the basics of orderly strategic thinking, Kosikov shows them at work in a variety of middlegame and endgame situations, especially the strategic minefield of minor-piece play. Examples are taken from both classic games and modern grandmaster play, together with instructive moments from games by the author’s pupils.
Alexei Kosikov is a chess master from Ukraine who has enjoyed an illustrious career as a chess trainer. He has nurtured a vast array of chess talents, including nine who have achieved grandmaster titles, perhaps most notably Vladimir Baklan and Dmitry Komarov. He has written extensively about chess - and combinations in particular - and was a frequent lecturer at the Yusupov/Dvoretsky elite chess school, to whose training manuals he also contributed.
"how do you come up with a good plan? one of the most difficult aspects of the game for ordinary club players, which this book sets out to address ... But this is not just an instructional primer. In order that the reader may reap the maximum benefit from the author's input there is a liberal sprinkling of exercises throughout the book" - Alan Sutton, En Passant
"the more I looked at the contents of this book, the more I came to realise that it offers some serious study material which lifts it clearly beyond the level of a standard primer aimed primarily at improving club players." - Sean Marsh, Marsh Towers
"Working through this book will definitely raise your playing strength as the attention is directed to the strategic and long-term aspects of the game." - Uwe Bekemann, Deutscher Fernschachbund
"Alexei Kosikov, renowned chess trainer, has recorded his knowledge of chess strategy in a book for Gambit. By means of a series of small goals, the reader is assisted to find the big plan ... important, also, are the so-called STOPS, teaching the self-discipline needed before making a move" - Bab Wilders, Nederlands Dagblad
"A wealth of sample games dissected move by move help to illustrate key principles in this excellent self-study guide for intermediate to advanced chess players striving to improve their game." - James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review
"Kosikov's primer on chess strategy not only covers a wide range of topics; it just as importantly offers the reader the opportunity to solve over 70 exercises which come with detailed solutions. Highly recommended" - IM John Donaldson, USA Team Captain
"Kosikov's guide is very practical ... he discusses the concept of 'serial errors.' ... How many times have we missed an opponent's saving idea only to make a mistake moments later that allows equality and then a further mistake that costs us the game. The tables can turn so quickly in chess! But Kosikov reminds us: 'don't castigate yourself!' and 'start again from the beginning!' It's nice to see a middlegame planning theorist who can write as though he's actually played a tournament game before." - Josh Specht, chessvideos-tv
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