Street Smart Chess

Axel Smith denne gang med en svært praktisk bok om hvordan oppnå (enda) bedre resultater i sjakk. Her er også en god dose sjakkpsykologi involvert. Foreligger i første omgang bare som gedigen, innbundet bok.

Flere aktuelle kapasiteter kommer med verdifulle bidrag som løfter boka på spesialområder: Baskaran Adhiban om "Beater Higher Rated Opponents", David Navara om "Beating Lower Rated Opponents", Aryan Tari(!) om "Forcing Yourself to Play for a Win", Bu Xiangzhi om "Drawing with Higher Rated Opponents" og Peter Heine Nielsen om "Using Preparation (with White)".

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Street Smart Chess is an expert guide to scoring more points at the chessboard. When does it pay off to play hard for a win? Or safe for a draw? And how do you adapt your playing style accordingly?

GM Axel Smith answers these questions, and more, by using a world-class player as a model for each chapter. Learn how Magnus Carlsen grinds out wins from level positions; how David Navara beats lower-rated opponents, and how Baskaran Adhiban beats higher-rated ones! Or serve-and-volley in the opening like Peter Heine Nielsen.

Playing well is a good start in chess, but you also need to be Street Smart.

Axel Smith is the award-winning author of The Woodpecker Method, Pump Up Your Rating and e3 Poison, which were all enthusiastically received by readers and reviewers. Using the Woodpecker as part of his training, as an adult he improved from a rating of 2100 to becoming a Grandmaster.