Mastering Chess Strategy | Book Review

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@henrids 2 года назад

I quite disagree with your recommendation that it is only for 2000+ FIDE. I'm a casual player, no rating, just around 2000 on Lichess Rapid for what it's worth, and I've learned tremendously from that book! I'd say, if chess is your main pastime, go get this book :) and be prepared to spend a LOT of time on it.

@PounceKW 11 месяцев назад

thanks for this comment bro, cuz i told myself i will read this book anyway although im not 2k

@Rohan-xc3kl 3 года назад

waiting for hellstien's endgame strategy review by my cool chess coach andras

@b.1565 2 года назад

Me too! Any "ETA" for the review? :)

@andrewmayo9400 3 года назад

you mentioned that your preferences for positional vs. tactical positions should influence your opening choices. Any chance we can get a video on that topic? I think a lot of people get caught up in memorizing lines and don't pay much attention to the flavor of the positions

@pasadenapsych44 3 года назад

Just finished the book last week, took me 6 months. I plan on returning to it frequently as the structure of the presentation is very conducive to learning - chapter with rich explanation followed by 15-20 exercises reinforcing what you learned. This is how every chess book should be. Thanks for the review!

@fragranceenthusiast5790 3 года назад

This was a fabulous video clip. I got so much out of it after only just 15 minutes. Really wonderful. Thank you.

@nomoreblitz Год назад

Great review!! 16:45 I still feel that way during my reviews of some positions in your Chessable courses! Especially CPR-Development when certain moves show a value for activity/mobility over material. Great stuff coach!!

@yoniker83 3 года назад

Andras Thanks for the review, I still believe that one day you will do a video on the Yusupov 10 books series as you have said that you will :)

@simonhinkel4086 3 года назад

I am working on the opening book for a while now. And I also love Hellstens lessons for the US chess school:)

@nicoterradas 3 года назад

Thanks for doing more books reviews!!! Love it.

@Bolgenos42 Месяц назад

Brilliant explanation, Andras. Thanks!

@rumpelRAINS 3 года назад

I love the book reviews

@sbrynjelsen 2 года назад

Thanks Andras for the book review. I just purchased it on Chessable and plan to spend the next few months going through it in detail. After spending the past few years studying endgames and openings I figured it was time to look seriously at chess strategy. Your review confirms my choice in buying this course.

@mrdoriangrey3684 3 года назад

Used to play vs Hellsten as a teenager :) I know he had great coaches, ordered the book, excited to finally catch up :)

@strangetobias1474 3 года назад

Still waiting for the butts you announced. great job as usual Andras ! Now let's get to 2000 FIDE first

@RigMaster_ 2 года назад

Just saw you have some vids on other book recommendations, I'll check em out!

@andrewsmith2868 3 года назад

Thanks Andras this looks like a real gem

@vjoskov 2 года назад

Example 156 is a complete game from start. There are couple of other ones as well. The chessable videos were quite useful for me when learning this book. Although a bit pricey, for a 1200 Rapid rating rating player like me it was quite a nice change from the conventional book. He not only explains the plans and the tactical refutations of some of the moves, but he also shows how some of the positional structures came to be from move one.

@MultiMarcd Месяц назад

I really appreciated your examples with Karpov - Gligoric and Short - Kasparov games. I'm working with this book presently. 1st i study the examples and then i go to the exercices on the same topic. An habit i have since almost a year now is that whenever in a book an example is start from a diagram position, i put the position on the chessboard engine and let my CB17 do the research in the megadatabase, this way i can play the entire game (i love to know where the position came from, it's important for me.) As you said, some examples requires good amount of time. Again today on 1 example i did not take enough time to analyse the way i should eliminated an enemy piece. A really good book.

@nosystem1098 3 года назад

Thanks for the heads-up; I will pass on this one. (For now. )

@tmldl 3 года назад

Great review again! After watching some of your videos I get the idea that pawn structures are important. Do you have any recommendations for study material for understanding and on how to play different structures? Preferably aimed towards lower rated players like me.

@Chessdrummer83 Год назад

I'm about 150 pages into mastering endgame strategy and I love it! My only negative comment is similar to this books examples I dont like that that it doesnt tell you white or black to play. The exercises do however. My preference is to attempt the example myself before seeing the method

@Socrates... 3 года назад

Thank you

@TCMx3 3 года назад

Good book review and good to know what level any book is for. Do you have a suggestion for an alternative that covers some of the same territory but is more appropriate for players of a lower strength?

@angelcow189 3 года назад

Im a simple man. I see an Andras video, I like button and proceed to enjoy it

@badhombre2484 2 года назад

Thank you for the awesome lesson Coach! I am focusing on my longer time control chess for a bit. Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on correspondence?

@stefanmilanovic85 3 года назад

It's really great idea to have this type of videos, I always appreciate good book review! It's borovnica 🇷🇸🇭🇺👍

@sethmachakos9926 3 года назад

I am not FIDE 2000 but I was able to grind through this book in a year, just took a lot of mental energy

@nudelsuppe2090 Год назад

Did it make you a better player?

@Addelias123 Год назад

Have you read Hellsten's endgame book? I would love to hear you review that one as well. I'm deciding on which of his three books to start with and they seem to be quite an investment of time, so I'd like to make the right choice.

@KeepChessSimple 3 года назад

Next series: review all 9 Yusupov books? ;)

@urierez1260 2 года назад

Somewhat late :) Andras, what would you think about going through certain chapters of this book, rather than the whole thing? I do this with many books and this feels like one that could be good for it.

@jamesfisher529 3 года назад

In terms of improving middlegame play, I would be curious your opinion on this book vs some of the other options, the complete manual of positional chess, the original pachman series, grooten, or maybe even silman. Personally, I don't think you can go wrong starting with Grooten and of course you cant go wrong with game collections, however after that, I'm not sure which is the most efficient path to take.

@ChessCoachAndras 3 года назад

Dont know the grooten book, Silman is definitely a solid start.

@jamesfisher529 3 года назад

@@ChessCoachAndras def add the Grooten book to your reading list, very well done, a slightly lower rating than helsten

@daniellevin4174 3 года назад

Andras, do you have an opinion about the quality and appropriate rating range for Daniel Naroditzky’s (written at age 14) Mastering Positional Chess?

@BaeBox 3 года назад

one of my biggest concern with any chessbook is that by pure chance, the author leaves the explanation of one of these variations out, or just gives it a "and white is clearly better here", and just because I randomly don't understand one of the underlying things, I don't get my bang for the buck, and don't take away everything from the book. Or so it feels very often. It's frustrating because I invested time into it, and end up just using an engine after all. Maybe I am not a book person?

@ChessCoachAndras 3 года назад

Hence my recommendation to go through it with a coach if posible.

@BaeBox 3 года назад

@@ChessCoachAndras yeah, I think it's great advice. Would you say that is a default solution every time I read a book and I feel like this?

@urierez1260 2 года назад

@@BaeBox well, coaches are expensive. You can do your own work and try to figure it out. What I do is exactly that and if I still don't get it I ask my coach.

@Grandcapi Год назад

Tactics is the culmination of strategy (I think that Botvinnik said it).

@nicoterradas 3 года назад

Hi Andras. I just wanted ask you if you had read any of Valeri Beim's books. I feel everyone has been sleeping on this author, as I have seen no reviews of his books so far. I'm a 2250-2350 player online, and if that counts for anything, I can attest to the brilliance of his writing style . Take a look at his "Back to Basics: Strategy" (Russell), for example, where he explains the issue of harmony and coordination like I've never seen anywhere else. Also, his books on Chess Dynamic and his last one on Intuition are superb. He has anther book on calculation which introduces concepts that improve upon Kotov and Aagaard on the technique of calculating variations and choosing candidate moves. You should seriously take a look at his books.

@nicoterradas 3 года назад

More on the calculation technique thing... Shereshevsky in his last book ("The Shereshevsky Method to Improve in Chess" -- NIC) discusses Beim's new concept and improvement on the traditional Kotov/Nunn/Aagaard treatment.

@ChessCoachAndras 3 года назад

Yea will check him ouyt, heard good things!

@chesst4033 2 года назад

Which is a better strategy book to start with? This one or the "Chess Strategy for Club Players" by Herman Grooten?

@CarlKarlsson420 3 года назад

I do get the argument about this improving your long time control chess more, however, doesn't the huge amount of examples and exercises increase your positional intuition aswell? I.e. if you take your time on the exercises and really try to understand them, wouldn't that "raise" your level of intuition regarding that subject, making you more likely to find them in blitz/rapid games?

@buk1733 3 года назад

Of course

@ChessCoachAndras 3 года назад

YOu are right that it does help with chess intuition , which does help blitz.

@urierez1260 2 года назад

@@ChessCoachAndras Somewhat late, but I believe Andras' POV is that classical is more important than blitz.

@thalisonamaral1642 2 года назад

I think the point is that, isn't recomended if you aren't going to play longer games to try to explore the ideas that you've studied in the book, but just playing blitz, you won't be able to explore a lot, and you won't feel that you aquired a lot from the book.

@kirkd1631 3 года назад

Looks I am not good enough for this book, will boost my chess with Yusopov for the time being

@elijahtipton4274 2 года назад

Do you think it makes a difference to read the physical book or would Chessable be a good way to read it?

@henrysuryanaga5924 3 года назад

Beautiful explanation. What is your recommendation on Strategy book for 1900-2050 level, easier to follow than Helsten but with substance close or about 80 percent of Helsten book? Thank you. Once again, wonderful video.

@dialecticsjunkie7653 3 года назад

Seconded! I would love to know your recommendation for that.

@KeepChessSimple 3 года назад

He has video's about book recommendations

@henrysuryanaga5924 3 года назад

@@KeepChessSimple thanks for the info..

@ralphbuschmann740 3 года назад

Thanks for the great insights! For which FiIDE-Level is the opening strategy book?

@mikecantreed 3 года назад

2850

@ralphbuschmann740 3 года назад

@@mikecantreed so funny!

@mayeenmdtasin8584 2 года назад

If you are 1000 even 800 rapid, you can get a lot out of the first book. I'm 1350. Loving the book. You can give it a shot. Even if you can't get a 100% of the knowledge in your head, getting 50% of it will do you a lot of good.

@ralphbuschmann740 2 года назад

@@mayeenmdtasin8584 great, thank you!

@captainnolan5062 2 года назад

Are you saying that players in the 1200-1400 range should not buy this book and study it?

@yehitzmedapirc 2 года назад

I've just buy the chessable version, is it the same?

@ChessCoachAndras 2 года назад

YEs

@gernot4490 2 года назад

this book is NEVER recommended by anyone. since u like it i will give it a try. its hard to choose with millions of recommendations out there

@maniniescobar244 3 года назад

should I get it with 2150 lichess elo?'

@ChessCoachAndras 3 года назад

I would say yes

@JS-zb9vx 3 года назад

First.

@jimmccann3856 3 года назад

You mention his first book several times, but dont tell us what it was? We are not mindreaders.....

@ChessCoachAndras 3 года назад

Wow... It's very difficult to answer comments like this without wondering about the future of humankind... Did it occur to you that if I reviewed book 2 on this channel, there is a solid chance I might have done book 1 earlier? About 2 clicks away? Actually ignore all the above. It is also written in the description of this very video (!!!) so just scrolling down instead of typing in a nasty comment would have solved your problem...

@urierez1260 2 года назад

@@ChessCoachAndras lmao

@Tywhip_ 3 года назад

I got an question, what is a somewhat accurate way to translation lichess/chess,com rating to fide rating? As someone who doesn't have an fide rating I often find it diffecult to know if something is or is not made for someone around "my level" because most often authors only say wich fide rating they make it for. Ps, keep up the great content :)

@michaelf8221 3 года назад

As a very general rule: subtract about 400 from your lichess blitz or 5-600 from your rapid rating to get your FIDE OTB. This rule really breaks down as your rating increases above 2000 lichess though, as the ratings get closer near the top...

@Tywhip_ 3 года назад

@@michaelf8221 my only accurate online rating is my classical lichess rating, witch is 2200. My lichess blitz rating is about 2080 but I have not played blitz in a couple of months

@michaelf8221 3 года назад

@@Tywhip_ Very rough estimate of 1800-1900 OTB then. It's good you're better at slower chess though!

@Tywhip_ 3 года назад

@@michaelf8221 lichess4545 is a really good community to join to get a lot of online classical games in, so that's basically the only games I have played online

@Tywhip_ 3 года назад

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