Bøker av Daniel Gormally

Given the changes inthe chess world over the last few years I feel that we badly need an update of how to prepare and out-prepare your opponent during a chess tournament. The pandemic giving rise to vastly underrated junior and amateur players. Online chess taking a much more prominent role. Accusations of cheating makingthe headlines. Social media being used as a tool to educate the chess masses. All these have lead to a different landscape, but some things stay the same. The player who is willing to analyse and work on chess harder than the restwill still separate his or herself from their peers. In my view, at least 90percent of success in tournament play will come down to how good yourcalculation and analysis is. Because that is the bread and butter of tournamentplay. This is what I will try to get across in this book, that a chess playerwill often stand or fall on the quality of analysis and I will discuss the positiveand negative role that working with computers has on a players overallstrength. I will also try to explain why my chess fell into a torpor because ofan over reliance on computers and how I have recently come to realize thattechnical deficiencies have often held me back from reaching the higher echelonsof the game. And in doing so, and looking at the chess world and trying toexplain it from my point of view while following my own progress and that ofothers I will try to put together a tournament battle plan

This book takes a closer look at the Classic mistakes by amateur playersinclude: 1. Moving a piece too often in the opening. This is one of themainstays which we think relates at least partly to the desire to createsomething in the opening, when we would be better advised to focus on simpledevelopment. 2. Impatience. Sometimes amateur players are too eager to changesomething when there really is no need. 3. Overgeneralizing. One of the biggestdifferences I’ve noticed when comparing professional play to amateur play is thatthe former is much more about concrete calculation - you go there, we go hereand so on - whereas an amateur player will have a tendency to overgeneralizewhen thinking about a position, perhaps because they are not used to the basicart of calculation. 4. Cutting variations off too quickly. Amateur players donot extend their calculation far enough, and thus superficiality tends to kickin. These and other mistakes are explained in the book. Of course itshould be noted that professional players also make these kinds of mistakes.

Have you ever wondered why you do well in certain tournaments and not in others? If your opening choices are the right ones? If your attacking play is good, bad, or Tinder swipe left ugly?In this entertaining account, the author explains how to achieve success in chess we need to understand our what works for us, but to achieve true mastery we should prepare to go beyond our zone of comfort. Along the way he takes us on a journey through his own world of discovery and explains how he became one of the best chess players in England. It’s a deeply honest and at times tragicomic memoir as he also reveals his strategy for taking on his biggest rivals and how best to use computers to improve your chess.

* Learn the calculation secrets of the world's best attacking players * First book from one of the UK's biggest chess stars * Illustrated with a wealth of examples from top-level chess games