Maybe try The Inner Game of Chess by Soltis.
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Inner-Game-of-Chess-The-77p3897.htm
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kindaspongey wrote:
Maybe try The Inner Game of Chess by Soltis.
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Inner-Game-of-Chess-The-77p3897.htm
I completely agree with @kindaspongey (who looks an awful lot like a pawn). The Inner Game of Chess is all about how to calculate and is a great improvement over Kotov. Soltis does an excellent job of explaining and illustrating the subject.
My additional recommendation is to study another Soltis book first: How to Choose a Chess Move. There is some overlap between the two books, and each can be studied independently of the other, but I think it's helpful to go through both. On the topic of calculation, How to Choose is more general and so should be done first.
Happy chess improvement!
Kindaspongey only pawn in game of life.
kindaspongey wrote:
Kindaspongey only pawn in game of life.
Aren't we all?
Not sure which forum this best in...
Looking for some tips/books on improving calculation.
I’ve been doing a lot of tactics training and my pattern recognition has improved significantly. But what lets me down is my ability to visualise in my mind where the pieces are 3-4 moves in (particularly if there aren’t forcing moves). I’ve read Kotov’s tree of analysis but it doesn’t quite work for me. Any thoughts or good books? I’m ~1700 so the Aagaard books are probably too advanced at this stage. But all recommendations welcome.
Thanks
Andrew