Improve Your Chess

“DRUM ROLL … announcing one of the very best authors of the past decade, GM Lars Bo Hansen. His four books, from 2005 to 2009, contain more useful comments, more secrets, and more ideas to win more games than anything else I have read, by one author, in … ever!” – Bob Long, Gilbert & Lange

In this book Lars Bo Hansen shows how chess understanding has evolved and explains how and why a study of the great champions of the past and present will significantly improve your chess. Although modern chess is a highly concrete game where calculation is paramount and principles often appear to take a back seat, Hansen argues that the principles have become implicit at top level: “you cannot win games only by following Steinitz’s or Nimzowitsch’s principles, but you will certainly lose games if you don’t know these principles!”

“If you want to reach the heights, you should study the entire history of chess. I can’t give any clear logical explanation for it, but I think it is absolutely essential to soak up the whole of chess history.” – Vladimir Kramnik

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