by. Jeremy Silman. · Rating details · ratings · 42 reviews. How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked. The Reassess Your Chess Workbook; Jeremy Silman; pages; Siles Press, The definitive answer to my title line would be welcomed. The snarky side of my mind says the reason there are x editions of the book is Silman wants to make money. This is not evil, but really you only need one of the .
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The chapter titles are promising and even serve as a decent outline of material that someone of my level fairly low should study to improve their middle game, but the actual content isn’t there.
It’s a relatively good series if you’re between and He basically silmna the reader to just yoour look at the available moves in a position until they’ve come up with a plan. I would steer away from Moskalenko’s book as a ‘textbook’ – that said I have spent a lot of time with it, and some of the Chapters are very good, and its fun. He said until you resolve that part of your game, focusing on imbalances and strategy aren’t going to do you any good.
When I was a weaker player, I loved it. As I said, each part covers a theme. Want to Read saving….
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He added humor and analogy to how I looked at positions. The fifteenth part covers solutions to problems in the book and the Sixteenth is a Recommended Reading List. Book ratings by Goodreads.
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His yyour is focus on improving tactics first and when you stop dropping pieces it’s a good time to start up Silman. Example games are only useful if they are carefully explained. I am crap at chess.
I was dissappointed with this one. Please enter a search term to begin your sioman. The guy teaches you how to state the situation in any moment of a game.
This was released in December I can’t comment on the latest edition, but it’s probably my favorite chess book. How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked improvement in anyone’s game. This imprecision of language makes the learning process difficult and frustrating.
Feb 22, William Schram rated it it was amazing Shelves: Once that done, you can go to the preferred places of rooks: In my blog the story about why I picked this book Jun 30, Justin Tran rated it it was amazing.
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In my view the best way to drive the learning through is through practice and not theory. Return to Book Page. PGN’s usually help a lot an average player vhess me. You have to like a guy who offers up phrases like “and now the Bishop breathes fire down the a1-h8 diagonal! Product details Format Paperback pages Dimensions x x To quote the end of his review: Many consider this to be the chess player’s bible. They are worth listing, with the deflating view in parentheses: Supposedly Silman completely rewrote the book “from scratch” was the phrase that caught my eye greatly expanded it, rearranged it, chopped out the Basic Endgame chapter the chapter that inexplicably OPENED the 3rd edition!
Currently I’m rated about here on Chess. Finally, I should note that this book shows every sign of having required a gargantuan effort from the author.
One covers just a vast amount of conceptual territory in our trek through these well-chosen examples, some of which are virtually impossible to solve completely, but all of which lead to fruitful discussion. For instance, the first part is all about endgames.
Create or steal them! Mar 11, Jason rated it it was amazing Shelves: If you’ve ever had a look around for a good chess book, you’ve undoubtably run across at least a mention of this book. One time, for example, he discusses opposite-coloured bishop positions for 6 full pages before returning to the solution of the problem at hand. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Those are concepts Silman introduced me to in The Amateur’s Mind.
The other editions are pretty much Silman saying the same things using different words and different examples. I can not give more than 3 stars to any modern chess book that doesn’t include the games in some electronic format, it just seams like a no brainer to include with the book?
If you can only get one book to improve your game, this one is it. Silman gives a wonderful description of putting together imbalances to create a winning position. Hpw first chapter talks about the King, the idea of Opposition hwo Outflanking.
Do not post NSFW material. Sep 3, 1. Submit a new link. Reading through it and going through the workbook increased by rating by a few hundred points. If I remember correctly, his reasoning was that people below are still siilman “hope chess”, as in they still make moves without looking at the consequences of their move looking at all possible checks, captures, and threats that can occur from your move and can you meet them and still hang pieces.