Love John. Positional Ideas in Chess

Collier Books, 1985. — 191 p. Designed to improve a player's middlegame performance by analyzing the strategic and tactical elements of a position, these tests also explain how to form a plan and to check that is it sound. Over 100 positions test the reader's ability to formulate the correct plan using a multiple choice format. This thought-provoking work provides a unique...

Glasgow: Quality Chess UK Ltd., 2015. — 461 p. — Paperback ISBN 978-1-78483-000-7. — Hardcover ISBN 978-1-78483-001-4. Mauricio Flores Rios provides an in-depth study of the 28 most common structures in chess practice. In Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide you will find: Carefully selected model games showing each structure’s main plans and ideas; Strategic patterns to...

Chess Evolution, 2017. — 525 p. — ISBN: 978-615-5793-00-4. GM Arkadij Naiditsch: The work of Efstratios Grivas is, as usual, very well organized, with logical explanations accompanying the practical examples he has chosen. There are, of course, almost unlimited options in the middlegame but I am very sure that after examining the current book’s examples, you will most definitely...

Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2010. — 220 p. — ISBN: 978-1-888690-58-3. Which side stands better? How much better? Why? Most chess players rely on loosely knit, unstructured methods to evaluate chess pieces and positions. They learn positional principles which often lead to inaccurate evaluations and faulty decisions about how to proceed. This groundbreaking book by best-selling...

Gambit Publications, 2003. — 224 p. — ISBN13: 978-1901983739. How can one determine if a piece is weak or strong? Or if a square is weak or strong? These are the principal questions that grandmaster and trainer Drazen Marovic addresses in this important book. By discussing carefully-chosen games and positions, Marovic explains how to recognize good and bad features of...

Quality Chess, 2016. — 2612 p. Winner of the prestigious Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Mark Dvoretsky in 2nd and 3rd place) Quality Chess is proud to be the publisher of Artur Yusupov's complete course of chess training. Stretching to nine volumes, Yusupov guides the...