Description
This new 3rd edition
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Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what?
First find the right plan, then the good moves will follow!
With this book, International Master Herman Grooten presents to amateur players a complete and structured course on:
- how to recognize key characteristics in all types of positions
 - how to make use of those characteristics to choose the right plan
 
In Chess Strategy for Club Players you will learn the basic elements of positional understanding:
- pawn structure
 - piece placement
 - lead in development
 - open files
 - weaknesses
 - space advantage
 - king safety
 - exploiting small advantages.
 
The author also explains what to do when, in a given position, the basic principles seem to point in different directions. Each chapter of this fundamental primer ends with a set of highly instructive exercises.
 
Herman Grooten is an International Master and a chess coach with over 25 years of experience. Quite a few of his pupils have gone on to become grandmasters, among them Loek van Wely and Jan Werle.
SHORTLISTED: The Guardian 2009 Chess Book of the Year
ISBN: 978-90-5691-716-6, New in Chess
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