THE ROAD TO CHESS IMPROVEMENT (Alex Yermolinsky)
224
pages (248 mm by 172 mm).
£17.99/$24.95/€28,05
Winner of the year 2000 Chess Journalists of America
Cramer Award for Best Chess Book.
"How can I improve my game?" is a perennial question facing
chess-players. While there are no easy answers, Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky is
better qualified than most to offer advice. Having found the famed 'Soviet
School of Chess' wanting, he trained himself, slowly but surely raising his
game to top-class grandmaster standard. In this book he passes on many of the
insights he has gained over the years, steering the reader away from
'quick-fix' approaches and focusing on the critical areas of chess
understanding and over-the-board decision-making.
Topics covered include: trend-breaking tools; the burden of
small advantages; what exchanges are for; classics revisited; and computer
chess. A large part of the book discusses a variety of important opening
set-ups, including methods for opposing offbeat but dangerous lines, such as
the Grand Prix Attack.
Alex Yermolinsky is one of the strongest players in
the United States. He was US Champion in 1996, and won the US Open Championship
in 1995 and 1997. He has represented the USA in four Olympiads, and played
board 2 for the team that won the World Team Championship in 1993. See also:
Chess Explained: The Classical
Sicilian.
"In my years of reviewing, I have never been tempted to make
a dramatic 'book of the year' pronouncement, but I can't imagine anyone else
topping this effort in the near future. ... For anyone looking to improve and
to understand the modern game in a fresh way, I believe that this is one of the
most exciting and provocative works to appear in years." John Watson,
TWIC
"Occasionally a book appears which stands out like a
beacon... a fascinating and revealing insight into the hard work that a top
class player has to invest in his game. We can view this book as a companion to
last year's Book of the Year, and it would not surprise me at all if it matched
the award this year" - Alan Sutton, EN PASSANT
"This is chess warfare explained from the trenches and Yermo
does such an exceptional job of conveying his insights that it makes this title
very recommendable" - Mark Donlan, CHESS HORIZONS
"Yermolinsky's masterpiece also really gets to grips with
numerous crucial elements such as decision-making, emotions, tactical mastery,
strategic skills, deep knowledge and understanding of all phases of the Royal
Game...so vital for the practical player wanting to progress far along the road
of improvement." - GM Paul Motwani, THE SCOTSMAN
"During the European Team Championship in Batumi it proved
of practical value in suggesting an idea that Stuart Conquest used in a game he
won against the Benko Gambit... an excellent book I would heartily recommend" -
GM Jon Speelman, THE INDEPENDENT
"...a magnificent achievement, by far the finest book I've
ever seen on the subject of practical play" - GM Matthew Sadler, NEW IN
CHESS
"It is hard to see how readers can fail to improve from
applying Yermolinsky's advice and techniques to their own games. This book is
also an enjoyable read, whilst one bonus is that Yermolinsky does expand a
couple of points from Secrets of Modern Chess
Strategy. This work would certainly be a worthy successor to it as
another Gambit BCF Book of the Year" - Richard Palliser, HULL CHESS CLUB
MAGAZINE
"Applying Yermolinsky's techniques to your own games will
highlight your worst areas without the need to employ a coach!" - Richard
Palliser, HULL DAILY MAIL
"Very informative and thought-provoking" - Alan
Borwell, SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENCE CHESS
"Here you have one of today's most active Grandmasters
giving away trade secrets..." - Tim Harding, CHESS MAIL
"It's an engaging book and well worth getting
...Yermolinsky has a great deal to say and says it in some style" - GM
Jonathan Levitt, KASPAROV CHESS
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