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Think Like A Grandmaster Paperback – June 30, 2003

by Alexander Kotov (Author), John Nunn (Editor), Bernard Cafferty (Translator)

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A classic, now available in modern algebraic notation for the first time! Few books have had as much impact on chess literature as this: the first edition sold out within months, and it was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of chess instruction. Twenty years later, it remains a bestseller in the field and one of the best practical training manuals available.

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Product details

Paperback: 187 pages
Publisher: Batsford; Algebraic Ed edition (June 30, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0713478853
ISBN-13: 978-0713478853
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
Average Customer Review: 13 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,888 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #282 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Board Games
- #360 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Chess

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Great book, just know your chess annotation well before you dive in

March 1, 2017

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Definitely not for beginners but it's an extremely insightful book that will help you elevate your game. The author does a great job breaking down games - just make sure you know your chess annotation and can mentally visual the board and moves really well before you take a crack at this one - it's packed full of interesting information and definitely worth the read for any serious chess player.

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The Prof.

Think like a Grandmaster

December 23, 2006

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Kotov covers the way top players think and common patterns of mistakes that all players make. It's really entertaining and you don't have to wade through miles of chess annotation to benefit from it.

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August 21, 2016

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Great

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September 8, 2015

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Instructive

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Norberto Martel Gutierrez

Great classic, must have it

December 1, 2010

Format: Paperback

In this book you will learn how to improve your choices about chess moves.
The chapters that justify the book are:
1, create your elections as trees.
2. exercise your vision.
3. blind spot
4. Positional Judgement

There are other chapters that will be helpful, such as creating your repertoire and other.

I think every great chess player, this book had passed through their hands, if you are a coach or player, this book will help a lot to improve your chess.

Alexnder Kotov, is one of the players that created the Russian School of Chess, his books have been in the Botvinnik school, and there are sticks out methodologies.

It is a book that is geared to players of any level, more EXPERIENCED reader, the easier it is to assimilate the ideas of the book.

The benefit of the book is really to get a mental discipline

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Great Middlegame book for INTERMEDIATE level players...

August 20, 2003

Format: Paperback

There are many books out there that claim to teach the Intermediate level player how to look for the best move during middlegame play but fall short of fulfilling their end of the bargain. This book is one of the ones that goes above and beyond what the title promises. Even as far as to show you how to create a PLAN (contrary to what "How To Reassess Your Chess" by IM Jeremy Silman states in regards to books that show one how to form a plan; also another great middlegame book by the way). However, there are some mistakes that must have occured when transposing the original descriptive notation to algebraic notation. But if your're looking to 'really' improve as a chess player then you have to expect to run accross some mistakes along the way. A word of advice: Ignore the mistakes the minute you find them and just forge ahead! There are some great ideas given in the examples of games from many Russian Grandmasters that if looked for in ones own games it WILL help to improve ones overall rating. That is of course, if you're willing to study this book thoroughly by not only setting up the positions given in the book on your own board but also by incorporating the suggestions given into your own chess strategies. So, if you want to know how to train your mind to think like a grandmaster, buy the book!

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November 5, 2008

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Many other GMs criticize this book as an unrealistic way of trying to analyze. Notice that they say unrealistic, not wrong. They think that it's impossible to analyze so many moves like the computer. But IMO they are forgetting one thing: that Kotov is writing this book for amateurs who have no real intuitions and pattern recognizition abilities to magically 'feel' the position and how the tactics and strategies should go. For amateurs who use this method they will start by trying to analyze a certain position to the fullest extend, then with practice they will develope the natural intuition that the Grandmasters have. That I believe, is the point of Kotov's book here: to give weak players a guidance to how to develope this intuition that virutally all the GM nowadays have that enable to to omit moves that are just wrong.

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A classic book unique in tackling how chess players analyse

June 7, 1998

Format: Paperback

This is a classic. Alexander Kotov analyses the way Chess players analyse! This is a highly original book which attempts to look at the thought processes of grandmasters, and provided recommendations and tips for thinking faster and more effectively through the maze of variations one encounters during chess games. Tips include being systematic by enumerating candidate moves at the outset, and following each variation once and once only to avoid going backwards and forwards between variations.

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