Mastering Positional Chess
"If you want to excel at chess, you have to delve deeper, and appreciate not only visually pleasing combinations, but much more subtle ideas as well", writes Daniel Naroditsky, the youngest chess author in history.
His book Mastering Positional Chess has just arrived from our printers. In it, Junior World Champion Daniel Naroditsky gives crystal clear, verbal explanations on the essence of positional chess.
Despite his young age, Daniel's mature style and systematic method of working stand out. He started writing this book when he realized that his lack of positional understanding was causing him to lose many games.
This refreshingly original book contains six chapters on the important positional aspects of chess, with many attractive games and fragments from Daniel himself and top players such as Kasparov and Topalov.
In a special preface Daniel's parents tell the story behind this book, which teaches chess skills every club player needs in order to win more games.
Please have a look at this serious, but entertaining chess instruction book!
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Dennis M
2 years 3 weeks ago
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I was surprised to see that Daniel Naroditsky was selling a book with NIC, but it’s impressive that he’s doing so. The excerpt on prophylaxis looked especially good – and I quickly realized why: the two examples given and the third one, which is only referred to in the excerpt, all come from a chapter by Dvoretsky and Yusupov on prophylaxis – see their Secrets of Positional Play (School of Future Champions 4). He doesn’t mention that book in his bibliography, so I’m guessing that those are examples one of his trainers used with him, and they made enough of an impression on him that he decided to use them for his book. At the very least, though, it's surprising that no one picked this up and said something about it, from his friends/trainers to the editors at NIC.
It’s also a little dishonest for the book ad to say that he "became World Junior Champion in 2007" since that title is only used, without qualification, for the U-20 winner. He was the world U-12 champion - a real accomplishment, but most certainly not the same thing as being world junior champ. Naroditsky was rated 2124 at the time, and won the event with a 2273 performance rating; again, a terrific achievement, but not the same as being one of the many GMs in the world junior championship.
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