"A Guide to Chess Improvement" features the very best of Dan Heisman's multi-award winning chess column "Novice Nook", which has run for the past ten years at the popular website ChessCafe.com. The book is full of valuable instruction, insight and practical advice on a wide range of key subjects: ge[...]

Chessplayers wishing to improve their performance typically seek to deepen their middlegame understanding or to increase their endgame knowledge. Often, however, the real key to improvement lies not in learning additional ideas and positions, but in developing a more effective thinking process at th[...]