Training for the Tournament Player (Batsford Chess Library) [Paperback]

Mark Dvoretsky (Author), Artur Yusupov (Author), Artur Iusupov (Author), Malcolm Gesthuysen (Translator)

Book Description

Series: Batsford Chess Library | Publication Date: September 1993

The authors of this book introduce their approach to chess, based on years of successful top-level practical experience. A training manual for anyone interested in improving their play, this book deals with all aspects of tournament preparation.

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Text: English (translation)

Product Details

• Paperback: 189 pages
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (P) (September 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805029427
• ISBN-13: 978-0805029420
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,163,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for all levels, June 9, 2005

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This review is from: Training for the Tournament Player (Batsford Chess Library) (Paperback)

This is a great book not only does it show you key ways to improve but also uses great examples.
The first element it describes is understanding the your weaknesses and eliminating or minimalising them. Are you too cautious, attack too much, lack positional or calculative powers?
The second element is games from the past, it explains why these can still be used, great masters of the past were able to better exploit and implement their plans (Defensive technique by the weaker player was not as developed as today) therefore you get to see the whole implementation of the plan. What are these plans? minority Attack, Attack on F2, Queen side pawn majority, isolated pawn the list goes on.
Also discussed is keeping a scrap book of key positions you come across as an aide memoir.
Finally the 3rd element is annotating your own games. By annoting your own games you see first hand where you went wrong this may indicate a weakness to work on and therefore work on your identified weakness will lead to improvement in practical playing strength.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book with several useful chapters, August 22, 2005

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This review is from: Training for the Tournament Player (Batsford Chess Library) (Paperback)

VERY good book. Alexei Kosikov's article, "Assessing a Position and Choosing a Plan in the Middlegame", is itself worth the price of admission. If only he wrote entire books himself!

I have several of Dvoretsky's books (of course, having them is not the same as having read them), and have found this to be the best of those I have read. It is very readable, with several articles, which are inter-related, but do not require each other. That is, you can pick and choose which articles interest you.

5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful Ideas, November 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Training for the Tournament Player (Batsford Chess Library) (Paperback)

The book is basically a manual on how to asess your own chess and begin to cover up weaknesses and promote strengths. Emphasising the need for unviversality of style (covering weaknesses) it advocates a method of analysing the individuals games to come up with ways of strengthening openings, psychology and analysis at the board.