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ricorat

Hello everyone, I’m interested in finding some books that are on winning/putting pressure on positions where you have a small edge (not winning positions, just one where it’s more pleasant for you to play than your opponent). Any recommendations are appreciated!

KevinOSh

This topic is split into two categories of books, middlegame books and endgame books. I am assuming that you are mostly interested in the middlegame, but there are also various books on winning the endgame

Simple Chess by Michael Stean is a games collection showing how to create a small edge and then build up your advantages and convert it into a win.

It is far from a complete course on this huge topic but it is a fairly small and cheap book to get.

The two Sokolov books Winning Chess Middlegames should also be useful to you. These are advanced books. A more entry level version of these books is Seirawan's Winning Chess Strategies.

Also if you don't already have it, Jeremy Silman's Reassess Your Chess.

ricorat
KevinOSh wrote:

This topic is split into two categories of books, middlegame books and endgame books. I am assuming that you are mostly interested in the middlegame, but there are also various books on winning the endgame

Simple Chess by Michael Stean is a games collection showing how to create a small edge and then build up your advantages and convert it into a win.

It is far from a complete course on this huge topic but it is a fairly small and cheap book to get.

The two Sokolov books Winning Chess Middlegames should also be useful to you. These are advanced books. A more entry level version of these books is Seirawan's Winning Chess Strategies.

Also if you don't already have it, Jeremy Silman's Reassess Your Chess.

I’m interested in both, though maybe slightly more interested in middle-games for this. I’ve heard really good things about simple chess and have been wanting to read it, so maybe this would be a good time for that! I’ve also heard of Sokolov’s books, so I’ll take a closer look at it. I’ve read silman’s book too, and it’s one of my favorite books haha. Thank you for the recommendations Kevin!

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lime56

I would suggest playing through games collections of Karpov, Rubinstein and Capablanca. All were adept at the.skill of turning small advantages into wins. Chernev's Capablanca's Best Endings comes to mind as does the recent English translation of Razuvaev & Murakhveri's Rubinstein collection.

play4fun64

Karpov games is not the ideal for studying Won Games as his opponent resigned early.

Capablanca and Rubenstein are model games for converting advantage into WIN.

play4fun64

I recommend this book