Chess Success: Planning After the Opening

Chess Success: Planning After the Opening by McDonald, Neil. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780713490718.

Chess Success: Planning After the Opening is written by International Grandmaster Neil McDonald, who says it is a fact that you can win some chess games just by playing one solid-looking move after another. But at the higher levels of competition, its not enough to play move by move. You need a plan. Chess Success: Planning After the Opening is about making that plan. It shows, with fascinating examples taken from actual grandmaster games, why the solid-looking move--the natural move--can often be a subtle blunder. Learn to make a better move by first looking at the pawn structure of the game and understand how it is warped by the positions of the pieces. Apart from this powerful new way of looking at chess strategy, the games with their unexpected twists are tremendously entertaining to replay. Over 40 games are covered in depth with the authors trademark move-by-move commentary, showing you how to handle that stage of the game when the opening phase is over and the