Annotating your own games can help you to play better chess. By examining the choices you made during the game – and how they turned out – you can pinpoint the flaws in your thinking process so that you can work on them.
Chess master, author, and renowned teacher Dan Heisman shows you the whys and the hows of annotating your games. Using entertaining clashes from four decades of tournament play, Heisman traces his own development as a player and analyst, illustrating how his method works in practice.
Adding recent games and new comments that shed light on his original annotations, in this revised and expanded edition of The Improving Annotator the author explores the benefits and pitfalls of letting computers do our thinking for us, and explains the best way to use them for analysis.
About the Author
Dan Heisman is a USCF National Master, a FIDE Candidate Master, a full-time chess teacher and the author of many chess books. He’s a multi award-winning columnist for ChessCafe.com, and presents weekly instructional videos for the Internet Chess Club. He recently won the Chess Journalists of America 2010 awards for Journalist of the Year, Best Column (for the second time) and Best Instructive Lesson (for the fifth time).