Batsford, 1995. — 111 p. — ISBN: 0731459417 The aim of this book is to show the club player aspects of positional play which he can use in his own games. Examples in books are often clear-cut, with one side crushing the other. But I always found snags cropping up in my games, so I have tried to point out the alertness needed in the realisation of an advantage. One of the most difficult things in chess is to win a won game. Opponents do not resign when their pawns are shattered and dropping off; they use the resulting open files to attack your king!
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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...
Thinkers Publishing, 2018. — 208 p. — ISBN: 9789492510310. This book is devoted to typical methods of play in the middlegame. This topic, of course, is not new. Many books have been written on it at different times by authors old and modern. Unfortunately, the content of such books is not always error-free, as I have experienced many times. Therefore the emphasis in my book is on...
New In Chess, 2016. — 192 p. If you want to improve at chess, you must know the characteristics of typical pawn formations. Understanding the pawn structure is a key tool when you are evaluating a position on the board. One simple pawn move can ruin your position or win the game. Post-beginners should know the basic essentials of chess structures and that is what this modern...
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...
Thinkers Publishing, 2018. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-020-4. In modern chess practice, the theory of the opening often stretches into the middlegame, sometimes quite deeply. When players choose particular opening variations, they are in essence deciding on the type of middlegame in which they would like to fight their opponents. In this second volume of my "Chess Middlegame...
New in Chess, 2020. — 304 p. — ISBN: 9789056919269. Foreword by Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana. If you want to improve your middlegame play, you will have to develop a FEEL for positions. That's what Boris Zlotnik has been stressing during his long and rich trainer's career. Clicking through concrete variations (a popular pastime in the computer era) is not enough. To guide your...