Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition - Softcover

Van De Oudeweetering, International Master Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9056916130 ISBN 13: 9789056916138

Publisher: New in Chess, 2016

Synopsis

In this sequel to his instant classic Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition, a highly original take on practical middlegame instruction, Arthur van de Oudeweetering presents players of almost every level with a fresh supply of essential, yet easy-to-remember building blocks for their chess knowledge.
Pattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement. It helps you to quickly grasp the essence of a position on the board and find the most promising continuation.
In short, well-defined and practical chapters, experienced chess trainer Van de Oudeweetering presents hundreds of examples of middlegame themes. To test your understanding he provides an abundance of exercises.
After working with this book, an increasing number of positions, pawn structures and piece placements will automatically activate your chess knowledge. As a result, you will find the right move more often and more quickly!

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur van de Oudeweetering (1966) is an International Master and a chess trainer from the Netherlands. His Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition (Vol. 1) was an immediate bestseller.

Review:

"Gives you a very pleasant feeling of learning new things without spending too much effort!" (Matthew Sadler, Former British Champion, Grand Master)

"Once you have stored a lot of patterns, finding the best or most interesting move at the board will take less time. The (unintentional?) side-effect of the book is: a snapshot of moderns chess at the highest level." (Frank Zeller, International Master SHACH Magazine)

"This book is structured the same way as 'Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition' and gives just as much joy (..) It is very amusingly written and it will easily improve your chess." (Dirk Schuh Rochade Europa Magazine)

"Every ambitious player should at least make sure that he knows all motifs that 'Chess Pattern Recognition' presents." (Harry Schaack KARL Chess Magazine)

"The Dutch IM and experienced chess teacher presents more key middlegame themes and ideas. Van de Oudeweteering's emphasis is on gradually increasing the reader's building blocks so that he or she becomes much better at pattern recognition." (CHESS Magazine (UK))

"Suitable for players of every level. Recognition helps with confidently finding a plan and the right continuation." (B.H. Wilders Nederlands Dagblad)

"'Improve Your Chess Recognition' presented 40 eye-openers for club players. In his new book Arthur van de Oudeweteering has collected another 37 small-scale themes that are very useful to know." (Richard Vedder, FIDE Master Schakers.info)

"A book that will make every chess player more creative." (Florian Jacobs Max Euwe Centre Amsterdam)

"This fine and instructive book has a convincingly clear lay-out." (Gerd Schowalter German Correspondence Chess Federation)

"A highly instructive middlegame book recommended for everyone who wants to extend his arsenal of positional weapons. And fun to read, that too!" (Mark Haast Schaaksite.nl)

About this edition

• Publisher: New in Chess
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9056916130
• ISBN 13: 9789056916138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256