Several!
All of these books are based on the "If you want to be THIS good, you have to to know THIS" mantra.
- Level Alburt's pocket chess books (part I and II)
- Raymond Cheng's Practical Chess Exercises
- Danny Kopec's Test, Evaluate and Improve your Chess
- Khelmnitsky's Chess Rating Exam (part I and II)
Thanks Shivsky for you help. Unfortunatly it seems that books you mention are only about exercises of combinations. GM-RAM has position which could need to play against computer for more than 30 or 40 moves to see if your ideas has sense. I.e. GM-RAM are position like B+4P (one of them in a side) vs N+3P, there is no combination for those positions, but you need to play with somebody to try to win that endgame, because is theoricaly won, but you need to guest the method to win in so many moves.
(at least Alburt's pocket book and Cheng's is like I say, dont know the others).
thanks
Try these ... they are like GM-RAM but each position gets increasingly harder and it has a few solutions/tips at the end.
Victor Pozharsky--Modern chess self instructor book (Parts I, II, III).
One part covers opening principles, the other middlegame strategy and the final one deals with endgames. As I recall, they are really tough positions that would function as practice drills vs. a computer or another player.
The thing is... If you're not sure if the solution is correct, then you haven't done it right.
Try these ... they are like GM-RAM but each position gets increasingly harder and it has a few solutions/tips at the end.
Victor Pozharsky--Modern chess self instructor book (Parts I, II, III).
One part covers opening principles, the other middlegame strategy and the final one deals with endgames. As I recall, they are really tough positions that would function as practice drills vs. a computer or another player.
was not aware of this one.
Several!
All of these books are based on the "If you want to be THIS good, you have to to know THIS" mantra.
- Level Alburt's pocket chess books (part I and II)
- Raymond Cheng's Practical Chess Exercises
- Danny Kopec's Test, Evaluate and Improve your Chess
- Khelmnitsky's Chess Rating Exam (part I and II)
these seem to be basic, there are more advanced like imagination in chess, and Perfect Your Chess
Hello,
I own GM-RAM book, which it is a collection of position to solve. The author claims it has a very good didactic value, as those 300 positions are those every player should know to be strong. It is a very aclaimed book and it looks quite promising.... working on tabia positions is a good way to be better, but I have problem with them. As I end exercises, as no solution or tip is given, I dont know if I am doing well or not, or got wrong conclusions.
Does anybody here knows of any database or book which comes with a similar set of positions with at least tips or solutions to know how am I doing? or any with a similar concept....
Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Fermin