I hope to meet you at one of the lectures/training seminars I will be running giving then. The main stop will obviously be India, where I have many friends and where a lot of people have expressed appreciation for my work. I do plan on coming on a book tour of Asia in the spring, hopefully around mid-April. Most progress for most people come when they are working in a group in one way or another. To work with a friend is often a good way. If it is not, please think about how you can make it more fun. But I think the examples are aesthetically pleasing and the process SHOULD be fun and interesting. It is by no means easy and it requires a lot of effort. If you go through all of these books in the way I describe, you will have more effective training than most young chess players in the World. Actually, I strongly recommend it.Įxcelling at Technical Chess can be read later it works well Endgame Play, which is also not on your list.Īnd please read Thinking Inside the Box when it comes out. You can always read Attacking Manual 1 more than once. Read AM1 and get A&D but first go through the other books. Attacking Manual 1 works well together with Attack and Defence. Everyone who works with these books seriously have made big progress including in India). (If you do an hour a day, you will see rapid progress. You can read Attacking Manual 1 and 2 when your solving is getting steady. Of all of these books, Calculation and Positional Play are the most important to really understand well. Calculation is later replaced by Practical Chess Defence and Positional Play by Strategic Play.

It does not matter which one you do most of, but do some of each. Once you are well into Calculation, you can start working on Positional Play as well. The attitude in solving is important. Do it like it is important! Once you get stuck go to the next chapter. The chapters are created with more and more difficult exercises. The exercises are not that great I could skip them. The same goes to some extent for Excelling at Chess, which is mainly meant to inspire.Įxcelling at Chess Calculation is the place I would start. Amateur can be read for fun and totally out of sequence. The books are:įirst off, Inside the Chess Mind and Grandmaster vs. I have bought a couple of books this month authored by you. I want to know which book should I start reading first.

My name is xxx xxx, aged 1x years and my elo is 21xx. With permission I post it here for anyone who are interested… In general, I prefer to receive them on the blog, so my answers can be seen by anyone who is interested, so they can work out for themselves which direction is right for them.Ī few days ago I got the following email, which is quite typical, as is my answer, even though I went into extra detail this time around.

I get a few emails/facebook messages every week, asking questions, coming with suggestions and so on.

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