Aagaard: Attacking Manual 2 improvers CHESS magazine

CHESS magazine

they tend to imagine that improving their endgame play involves a massive amount of study of dry technical positions

David Smerdon shows how you can use tricks from psychology to marshal hidden resources and exploit your opponent's biases

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“A superb book

Aagaard: Attacking Manual 2 improvers CHESS magazineThe old masters dealt only with the static features of positional rules. But, these are insufficient to explain the basics of chess. The problem is that chess, like other sciences, has undergone a dynamic revolution, but chess literature does not yet reflect this. In this major work Aagaard explains the rules of attack (the exploitation of a dynamic advantage), balanced between understandable examples, and deep analysis. Five years in the making, this