Practical Chess Exercises: Tactics, Strategy, Endgames
Training with Moska is based on the best instructive material Moskalenko collected while working with amateurs for three decades. The book covers a wide variety of aspects of the game and the more than 500 instructive positions are accessible for players of different strengths.
If you have an Elo rating between 1400 and 2100, this book will help you make a big step forward.
With his famous light touch and humour Moskalenko explains the themes and concepts of his training material. Subsequently, he presents a multitude of typical examples and exercises and rounds off with large exams to test your understanding.
As if you are attending one of his training sessions, your imagination and visualisation will improve, you will learn to recognize the intentions of your opponent, you will find out how to select between options before you start to calculate, and much more.
About the Author
Viktor Moskalenko (1960) is an International Grandmaster and a FIDE Senior Trainer. The former Ukrainian champion has won many tournaments in Spain, his new home country. He is the author of ‘The Fabulous Budapest Gambit’ (2007), ‘Revolutionize Your Chess’ (2009), ‘The Wonderful Winawer’ (2010), ‘The Perfect Pirc-Modern’ (2013), ‘The Diamond Dutch’ (2014) and ‘The Even More Flexible French’ (2015).
Reviews
GM Karsten Müller, creator of the Chess Endgames DVD Series: “It is always fun to be instructed by Viktor Moskalenko as he has such a fresh and creative approach!”
International Master Dirk Schuh, Rochade Europa Magazine: “Very clearly structured (..) The part on the endgame for me is the highlight (..) All in all this is a wonderful training book which presents important aspects of the game. It will bring all players with an Elo of 1600 or more a strong improvement of their playing strength. I wouldn’t be able to put an upper Elo limit on the usefulness of the book, since I myself learnt a thing or two.”