Winning Chess Strategies

We've updated the cover of "Winning Chess Strategies" so that the Microsoft Press "RM" Chess series has a more cohesive and dynamic look. This is the third book in the Chess series by International Grand Master Yasser Seirawan, with Jeremy Silman. In chess, there is a class of moves that are appropriate for a given situation, and in fact, true masters of chess all tend to make the same type of move in a given circumstance, although variation exists in the details of the actual move. "Winning Chess Strategies" teaches that although no one move is best in any given situation, the type of move to use is crucial. As most chess players know, learning strategy is key before moving to the details of tactics.

 (35 customer reviews)

This is book at a mid-level skilled player who wants to add on their their basic knowledge of chess. Ideas are taken from actual play and are made into broken down examples. This is instead of using complete games (another excellent way to improve - here one of the mid-level comment on every moves book like "Logical Chess" or "Unbeatable Chess" would fit in well) the author focuses on a variety of concepts that he fees are important. This is certainly a good, but not a great book.

Anyone who is serious about learning to play chess well should begin with Seirawan's Winning Chess series. I had heard good things about it, so I bought this series for my wife. I figured that it would all be too simple for me, but decided to skim through the books quickly anyway. I learned quit a bit from both the Tactics and Strategies books. Seirawan's system is very similar to the system that co-author Silman teaches in his more advanced How To Reassess Your Chess (which would be the perfect book to read after finishing the Seirawan series). I learned things from Strategies that I hadn't learned from Reassess; and Tactics goes into greater, very helpful detail about setting up and executing tactics and combinations. This is a great series, I recommend it strongly to any player rated below 1600.

superb book. must read right after the tactics book by the

same author. However, you don't have to become really good

at tactics before reading book. see, the tactics book has

2 levels of porblems. Ones that are easy and ones that are

really tough. As long as you can get through the erasy ones

in each chapter, you are ready for this book.

This book is real genius (2 negative poinst are mentioned

below), here is why:

1. author used very simple language

2. he answered so many of my questions

3. it, i think, covers every situation I could think of

4. it is broken down by chapters, each one covering

either a a general principle (e.g. where

pieces should aspire to go, only it is NOT boring)

5. It teaches you how to think and evaluate any position

and then formulate a strategy.

2 negative points:

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