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Anybody has an opinion on Teach Yourself Better Chess by William Hartston?
It is composed of 75 short lessons of increasing difficulty divided in groups of 25 (Beginner, Advanced and Mastery I believe each group is called).
Each lesson is two pages long and is accompanied by a well commented example, usually taken from grandmaster games.
I was greatly surprised when I picked up this book at the library, despite its awful title it has great value for a player rated in the lower 1000s.
Miguel
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I've been looking at (I believe its called) Test Your Positional Play, anyone have thoughts?
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Bellin-Ponzetto: Test Your Positional Play. I've been going through it, it's quite good but of course it's harder to formulate your own winning plans than simply pick the best one out of three choices given.
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I hadn't realised they gave choices, I figured it was like a chess puzzles tactical book but looking at positional ideas rather than tactics. What do you think the minimum rating would be for someone to find it useful (assuming an online site rating such as this one)?
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Well, they don't really explain positional concepts at all other than as part of the analysis. So you should already know and be familiar with isolated pawns, open files and diagonals, advantage of bishop pair, weak squares etc. It's more of a "how to think in a position and how to formulate a plan". They then explain how to evaluate your plan. The problems consist of an actual position from a master game and you are presented three plans. Once which is usually completely wrong and two which are often similar but one is positionally much better.
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