Studying Chess Strategy (Priyome)

I have been playing/studying chess seriously for about 7 years now. I have found a wealth of books/software that have helped me with tactics and developing my "board vision". What I have not found however is something similar to develop my strategic sense. I have read several good books on Strategy (Stean's Simple Chess and others) and read over alot of annotated game collections (Chernev, McDonald, Snyder, etc...) but nothing has really helped me instantly notice simple strategic/positional based moves like all those tactic drills have helped me with that aspect. I recently read a review of Solits's new book "Studying chess made easy" where the reviewer mentioned the russian term "priyome", i have included the paragraph from the review:

Soltis exposes readers to the Russian word "priyome." That idea alone was worth the purchase price to me. It's my guess that "priyome" is a word that will become more familiar to chess players. We're all familiar with mate-in-two, mate-in-three positions. Those focus on combinations. A "priyome" is a positional response to game move rather than a combinational response.

There is even a Wikipedia site dedicated to the term:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priyome. One of the examples they give is when fighting for control of a central square you can use your off colored bishop to pin/capture an enemy knight that is fighting for control of said square.

This is exactly what I have been looking for, I would love to see a simple puzzle book/interface that would allow you to train by "Strategic Motif". Does anyone know of a book, website, or piece of software that uses this concept to train by?

Israel Gelfer's Positional Chess Handbook is 495 positions grouped according to strategic/positional themes.  Vlastimil Hort and Vlastimil Jansa's The Best Move looks at positions from Hort's games.  Bent Larsen's Good Move Guide has a bunch of positions where you have to find the right plan.

Chess Training Pocket Book and Chess Training Pocket Book II by Lev Albert is what you are looking for.

There is at least one puzzle book with positional puzzles instead of tactical puzzles that I know of.  Muller's Chess Cafe Puzzle Book 2 is a book I didn't really like at first, but I've warmed up to it.  If you're looking for positional explanations like in Stean's book, then this is not the book for you.  It does have an intro illustrating it's different positional motifs, but in my opinion it's not very useful.  The meat of the book is 20 tests with 16 positional puzzles each (320 puzzles total).  The positions are taken from high level GM games, and the solutions are all moves (no explanation).

So this is good for positional pattern recognition if you're willing to wade through the solutions from time to time and if you're rated around 2000 USCF.

Never heard of this book, it looks good, glad you mentioned it.

I would recommend Jeremy Silman's  book, " How to Reassess Your Chess 4th Edition " who captures the concept of "priyome " quite well  and offers positional tests after each chapter where you're asked to figure out the logical next move.Each chapter deals with positional concepts such as Space, Target Consciousness ,Pawn Structure etc.

i think larsens good move guide is quite awesome if i remember it correctly

There are a few Chess Mentor courses on site, most notably Silman's 300 lesson "Roots of Positional Understanding", but of course you have to be a diamond member.  He does give pretty good explanations of why the correct move was chosen though, and more importantly, explanations of why wrong answers don't work.  OK there are a few exceptions where he just says something like "you've missed the idea, try again", but we all get lazy now and then.  Generally if you follow his hints you'll have a fighting chance of figuring the position out though.

there is a book called my system by aron nimzowitch. it starts out with tactics, then positionals, and finally, some games to illustrate part 1(tactic), part2(positionals)

Valeri Bronznik, "Techniques of Positional Play" deals specifically with 45 priyomes, classified by motif.  There are  10-20 examples for each priyome.

There are a series of exercises at the end of the book.  It is rather advanced and requires several readings.

I suggest going thru it rapidly at first to get a basic understanding of each topic, and you can then gradually get into detailed examples.  I found immediate application in my games.

It will take about 6-12 months to own the material, and the exercises help to see how well you understand it.

COOL!

I've been playing for 20 months and I just ran into this term "priyomes" in the book "What it Takes to be a Grandmaster" by the American GM Andrew Soltis.  My Dad was telling me about the recently desist, July 14, 2022, GM Nikolia Krogius (Russian moved to the US) and his book "Psychology in Chess".  I was looking for another book of Krogius when I started skimming Soltis's introduction:

"Grandmaster moves are not beyond the understanding of average players. Many of those
moves are based on principles, on the positional techniques we call priyomes or on different
ways of thinking that are unfamiliar to non-GMs."

Soltis's premise of the book seems to be based on Kasparov's observation of the 2014 Carlsen vs Ananda World Campion moves played.

I was glad to find this article and other book references, thank you.