No time to study but want to win more chess games?Improve Your Chess in 7 Days is packed with practical tips and hints on how to improve - in just one week. With one short chapter for each day of the week, the book is ideal for social chess players and includes a sprinkling of chess cartoons to keep you smiling as you read. Focusing on a different area of your game every day, the book covers:
Day 1: So You Want to Improve your Chess?
Day 2: Understanding the Openings
Day 3: Strategy versus Tactics
Day 4: Creating the Attack
Day 5: Avoiding Blunders
Day 6: Mastering the Ending
Day 7: The Art of Swindling
Moving On
With comments and advice after each move, this is as clear a guide to improving your chess as you will ever need.
Australian chess champion and Player of the Year for 2004,Gary Lane is a prolific and popular chess author. He has written over a dozen titles, including Find the Winning Moveand Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings: Black. He is also a well-known chess trainer, and has been involved in coaching some of England and Australia's top junior players.
Content
005 Introduction
007 Day 1: So You Want to Improve your Chess?
026 Day 2: Understanding the Openings
061 Day 3: Strategy versus Tactics
089 Day 4: Creating the Attack
121 Day 5: Avoiding Blunders
139 Day 6: Mastering the Ending
179 Day 7: The Art of Swindling
193 Moving On
198 Glossary of chess terms
Day 1: So You Want to Improve your Chess?
Day 2: Understanding the Openings
Day 3: Strategy versus Tactics
Day 4: Creating the Attack
Day 5: Avoiding Blunders
Day 6: Mastering the Ending
Day 7: The Art of Swindling
Moving On
With comments and advice after each move, this is as clear a guide to improving your chess as you will ever need.
Australian chess champion and Player of the Year for 2004,Gary Lane is a prolific and popular chess author. He has written over a dozen titles, including Find the Winning Moveand Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings: Black. He is also a well-known chess trainer, and has been involved in coaching some of England and Australia's top junior players.
Content
005 Introduction
007 Day 1: So You Want to Improve your Chess?
026 Day 2: Understanding the Openings
061 Day 3: Strategy versus Tactics
089 Day 4: Creating the Attack
121 Day 5: Avoiding Blunders
139 Day 6: Mastering the Ending
179 Day 7: The Art of Swindling
193 Moving On
198 Glossary of chess terms