Chess training Pocket Book II

This Chess Training Pocket Book II is a pocket-sized chess training book for players who want to sharpen tactical awareness and calculate variations more accurately. It combines practical guidance on how to think at the board with a large set of positions for independent study, making it a useful companion for regular training.

What this book covers

The subtitle gives a clear sense of its focus: How to spot tactics and how far ahead to calculate. Rather than offering random exercises, it teaches a structured way of approaching positions so you can build habits that carry over into real games.

The opening chapter looks at practical positional thinking, including how to avoid tunnel vision, how to work with candidate moves, how to use supporting positions and how to shift your evaluation of the position. It is the kind of training that helps not only with solving diagrams, but also with making better decisions over the board.

What you get inside

The main body of the book is made up of 320 carefully selected training positions. They are chosen to develop key aspects of chess thinking and reinforce motifs that appear regularly in games. That makes the book suitable for both short study sessions and more systematic work on your play.

Chess Training Pocket Book II continues Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions and Ideas. Like the first volume, it brings essential training material together in one compact paperback that is easy to take to a tournament, a club session or your daily study routine.

Authors

Lev Alburt and Al Lawrence are the authors of this training book.

Edition details

• Product type: chess training book
• Format: pocket-sized paperback
• Content: 320 training positions
• Series: continuation of Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions and Ideas
• Authors: Lev Alburt and Al Lawrence
• Publication date: October 7, 2008
• Page count: 208
• Publisher: CIRC
• Weight: 188 g