I once had a bit of trouble myself in that area. I checked out a book called "Chess Magic" it was a mid-end game coverage of national championships in europe and russia from the 20's to the late 60's. I didn't know what to do. Having only one picture per game and the unexplained coordination of rest of the game was perplexing. I found that there are many ways one can learn from a book, or your opponent just the same. Everyone knows the single optional moves for each piece, but knowing how to use multiple pieces for one joined force of checking is quite another. Always be on the lookout for these 'gangs' and you will see their stratagies start to repeat in many games and books. As for testing single moves or these multipeice plans, I enjoy choosing spicific ones to start with and giving half to each color. I would mix and match untill I find some ways to defeat them, or conquer as them. The most important is to learn why and how each move works on the boards.
This is how I have experimented with this game and continue to do so, but I am not that credible as the books themselves. I suggest starting with single piece move pro/cons, and read from books that best make sense to you. These will be the most effiant to learn from. I hope this gives you some help. Let me know if this is useful, I would be glad to discuss this further.
Hi Everyone,
I have some free time coming in December and was thinking it would be beneficial to read through my copy of Logical Chess: Move by Move. Do you have any recommendations for effective ways to approach this book? Should I set up multiple boards and play through all the alternative moves? Play the games in my head? etc. I am sure this can be expanded to almost all chess books, so even if you haven't read Logic Chess, I would be interested to know how you approach studying a chess book.
If this topic has been addressed elsewhere, I apologize for the redundancy and would benefit from links to the previous forum posts if you know them.
Thanks for the help! It is greatly appreciated!
-Collin