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Chess Lessons
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by Vladimir Popov, 256pp. (Quality Chess 2011)

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Vladimir Popov is a distinguished Russian chess coach who has guided his two most celebrated pupils, the Kosintseva sisters, into the Top 10 of women's chess. In Chess Lessons Popov shares his secrets of chess improvement.
Chess is of course a complex game, but Popov has the ability as a coach and author to offer clear principles to help the reader achieve a deeper understanding of chess.
A top Russian chess coach shares his secrets of chess improvement.
  • Written by a highly successful chess coach.
  • An expert guide to playing better chess.

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Review On Jul 4, 2011by Ernie Capwell of Bangor, ME
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Title : Chess Lessons
Comments : This has to be one of the worst books on the subject of positional evaluation and planning. The author writes on page 19:
Obviously the term evaluation is inseparably linked to the concept of the positional elements. A
classification of these elements can be found in various books; for instance in his excellent work
Think like a Grandmaster (1970), Alexander Kotov identifies four major categories:
(1) Open lines and diagonals
(2) The pawn structure and weak squares
(3) Piece placement
(4) Space and the centre

He gives no explainations of how one might apply such ideas. A superior book on this same subject is Chess Strategy for Club Players by Herman Grooten. Grooten shows how to evaluate a position based on the 7 criteria used by Karpov and Mazukevich in Find The Right Plan.

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