Chess Training for Candidate Masters by Alexander Kalinin

Chess Training for Candidate Masters by Alexander Kalinin

Today's young players have benefited greatly from working with chess computers. There is little doubt that advanced software and electronic training programs have significantly contributed to the rise of the overall standard of play. But there is a downside as well. Many young chess players see the computer as the ultimate answer to nearly everything. They think that computer analysis is the best and fastest way to find the truth in any position on the board. Inevitably, those players have gradually stopped thinking and analysing for themselves. The prominent Russian chess trainer Alexander Kalinin argues that what you need to make real progress is not more computer input, but increased understanding. To fully digest all available data and to discover the ultimate secrets of chess you must dislodge your decision making from your addiction to the computer and (re)develop the habit of using your own brain. Kalinin helps players seeking the master title by showing how concrete knowledge leads to improved decisions at the board. He stresses the essence of the classics and the importance of human interaction in reaching analytical mastery. Kalinin provides a wealth of training material. The vast majority of his examples has never been published before. He reveals the mistakes he himself made as a candidate master and mostly uses games of players who themselves are on the road to chess mastery.

Alexander Kalinin, a Grandmaster and renowned chess educator, was born in 1968 near Moscow, Russia. Among those he has coached are World Youth Champion Daniel Naroditsky (USA), European and Russian Women's Champion Grandmaster Valentina Gunina, and Olympic gold medalist Women's Grandmaster Olga Girya. He has previously published books in English and Russian on Fabiano Caruana, the Slow Italian Opening, the French Defense, the King's Indian Defense, the Sicilian Defense, and chess learning methods. At the annual Moscow Open, he has been a regular commentator. Purmerend (Netherlands, 1993), Haarlem (Netherlands, 1993, 1994, and 1995), Wijk aan Zee master's competition, 1996), Leiden (Netherlands, 1997), North Bay (Canada, 1999), and Springfield (USA, 2001) are just a few of his tournament victories.

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ISBN 13	9789056917159
ISBN 10	9056917153
Title	Chess Training for Candidate Masters
Author	Alexander Kalinin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	New in Chess
Year published	2017-05-19
Number of pages	208
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