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santiagopinon

So i have a rating of about 1900 USCF and im 17 years old. Over the past 2 years i have been very dedicated to chess and im really trying to improve. My goal is to become a grandmaster but my goal for this year is to get into the high 2000's. I feel that im very strong tacticly, have a tactics rating of 2401. However i struggle gettting into the positions where i can use my tactical ability to obtain an advantage. Could someone please recommend me books that would help me positionally? Any advice would be great, thank you.

Arctor

Dvoretsky has a great book aptly titled "Positional Play"

MartinBrookes

pfren, could you tell us a bit more about "Test your positional play", please? This is the first time I have seen it referenced.

MartinBrookes

pfren, thank you very much. It sounds interesting and worth looking out for.

Vease

I would second Test Your Positional play, moves that are preliminaries to exchanging a poorly placed piece often make 'no sense' when you play over a game with no notes but you can find them explained in this book, as well as many others. If you know your chess history some of the ideas are very famous like the Petrosian exchange sacrifice against Reshevsky in Zurich 1953 but the explanation is crystal clear, so even if you've seen it before you might still learn something.

Unfortunately the book is out of print I believe...

MartinBrookes

Thanks, Vease. I have found a copy via www.abebooks.co.uk and look forward to reading it. 

LavaRook

pfren

What is your opinion on Reassess Your Chess 4 by Silman?