Gain the advantage over your opponent with easy-to-remember strategies from one of the worlds top chess players! Strategy is the ultimate secret weapon for championship players around the world. Drawing on his considerable experience in tournament play, International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan shows you how to apply flexible strategic principles to every part of your game. Using Seirawan’s simple and effective planning and analysis techniques, you’ll enter each game with confidence and energy, ready to play forcefully and intelligently the way you need to play so you can win every time!
Learn to:
- Knock your opponent off balance with bold opening moves
- Formulate an overall game strategy before the middle game
- Interpret the motivation behind your opponents every move
- Position yourself for a winning endgame
- Diagrams throughout the book illustrate game positions, and you’ll meet histories greatest chess strategies learning from them move by move!
Whether for reference during practice games or simply for pleasure reading, Winning Chess: Strategies is an information packed resource you’ll turn to again and again.
About the Author
Yasser Seirawan is the highest-rated American chess professional on the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) rating ladder and the first American to vie for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer. He is a three-time U.S Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion and an eight-time member of the U.S chess Olympiad team. Currently one of the worlds top-ranked chess players, he is one of only a handful of players to have defeated world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament play.