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Improve your chess calculation
Calculation is key to winning chess games. Converting your chess knowledge into concrete moves requires calculation and precise visualization. The bad calculation is hard work. You cannot rely on feeling or intuition – you will have to turn on your brainpower. The good you can improve your calculation skills by training. Set up a position on a chessboard and try to solve exercises without moving the pieces! Grandmaster Ramesh RB is the perfect coach to awaken your chess brain and feed you precisely the right exercises. ‘After only a month of intensive training with Ramesh, I could sense a seismic shift in both the precision of my calculation as well as my general level of sharpness,’ says GM Daniel Naroditsky. GM Ramesh is one of the world’s most successful coaches. He has trained many of India’s top talents at all stages of their development on their journey to become International Masters and Grandmasters. Ramesh understands what mistakes players can make while calculating. He knows that the best move in a specific position may be the opposite of what your intuition is urging you to play. And he serves you the exercises to correct these misconceptions and start finding the right solutions. Every chess player will benefit from the hundreds of exercises in this book. Coach Ramesh will take your calculation skills from a club player’s level to grandmaster level.
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336 pages, Paperback
First published May 17, 2022
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February 20, 2025
Only rating 3 stars because it was honestly above my level. This book is made for fucking Superman
April 17, 2023
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An excellent training guide in developing chess calculation skills
This excellent book came highly recommended by chess coach Andras Toth - an Australian International Chess Master and trainer. The content of the book is very stretching and so might best be used by - or with a trainer.
It requires a very disciplined approach to the resolution of its training material contained within (for example - sitting with an actual chess board and pieces and formulating solutions without moving the pieces.
Good for anyone with real ambition to progress in chess but a tough for the casual player.
James
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Line dump
The bulk of the book consists of long branching variations often with little explanation, and usually non at all.
The author, from what I can tell so far, never explains what portion of the long variations he dumps on the reader he expects them to have seen.
Also, on several occasions, the author adds explanatory text to give context to the puzzle.
This would be useful, but since it is placed immediately beneath the diagram, you will have to choose between spoiling the puzzle solution or missing out on the context provided. Due to the fact that the solution is under the diagram, I've often accidently seen the solution to a puzzle before I've had a chance to hide it.
Hani
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Not useful for me
The analysis is often non-existent or very poorly explained. It will for example show you a position where white is losing a piece, and claim white is doing well with no explanation why.
I am rated 2100 on chess.com and left confused and frustrated.
To understand these positions I guess I could put them all into a computer and get some analysis that way - but that is a very long and irritating process if you need to do to check every line.
This would have been way better with some clear evaluations and explanations of the positions rather than just leaving it to the reader to figure it it.
An excellent training guide in developing chess calculation skills
This excellent book came highly recommended by chess coach Andras Toth - an Australian International Chess Master and trainer. The content of the book is very stretching and so might best be used by - or with a trainer.
It requires a very disciplined approach to the resolution of its training material contained within (for example - sitting with an actual chess board and pieces and formulating solutions without moving the pieces.
Good for anyone with real ambition to progress in chess but a tough for the casual player.
James
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Line dump
The bulk of the book consists of long branching variations often with little explanation, and usually non at all.
The author, from what I can tell so far, never explains what portion of the long variations he dumps on the reader he expects them to have seen.
Also, on several occasions, the author adds explanatory text to give context to the puzzle.
This would be useful, but since it is placed immediately beneath the diagram, you will have to choose between spoiling the puzzle solution or missing out on the context provided. Due to the fact that the solution is under the diagram, I've often accidently seen the solution to a puzzle before I've had a chance to hide it.
Hani
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Not useful for me
The analysis is often non-existent or very poorly explained. It will for example show you a position where white is losing a piece, and claim white is doing well with no explanation why.
I am rated 2100 on chess.com and left confused and frustrated.
To understand these positions I guess I could put them all into a computer and get some analysis that way - but that is a very long and irritating process if you need to do to check every line.
This would have been way better with some clear evaluations and explanations of the positions rather than just leaving it to the reader to figure it it.
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