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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Most Instructive Book on Calculation. Reply #5 - 06/05/09 at 07:23:51	Post Tools	Print Post
	The most instructive book on calculating may well be Secrets of Pawn Endings by John Nunn. Practical Rook Endings by Viktor Korchnoi is another great book for practicing your calculating skills. If you can analyse the positions from his games against Karpov without the use of a board, you are probably pretty darned good at calculating. In order to help you select moves to calculate, you may want to try the exercises in Kotov's *Think Like a Grandmaster* or any of Dvoretsky's books. (Each of these books are written for advanced players, but each will also help calculating skills.) Chess vision and calculating skills are closely related. I would be curious to see a selection of books designed to help the chess imagination. But I guess that's a topic for another thread. Gerry, Thank you for bringing to mind the old thread that was discussed last year. I was a bit surprised that I recommended middle game books until I saw the title of the old thread: Combinations and Calculation. Ostap and I generally agree with each other quite a bit, and it's interesting that we made similar suggestions in slightly different contexts.


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Antillian God Member Offline Brilliance without dazzle! Posts: 1757 Joined: 01/05/03 Gender:	Re: Most Instructive Book on Calculation. Reply #4 - 06/04/09 at 10:44:54	Post Tools	Print Post
	swingdoc wrote on 06/04/09 at 05:30:34: Improve Your Chess Now by Tisdall Thanks, I am not familiar with that one. I will do some research on it.

	"Breakthrough results come about by a series of good decisions, diligently executed and accumulated one on top of another." Jim Collins --- Good to Great
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Antillian God Member Offline Brilliance without dazzle! Posts: 1757 Joined: 01/05/03 Gender:	Re: Most Instructive Book on Calculation. Reply #3 - 06/04/09 at 10:44:21	Post Tools	Print Post
	Gerry1970 wrote on 06/04/09 at 00:13:25: Hello Antillian: You may have seen the following thread already? It's not exactly what you are looking for but may be close? http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1208175635/12#12 Gerry Funny, I did a search before I posted this and did not find that thread. But it is useful. thanks.

	"Breakthrough results come about by a series of good decisions, diligently executed and accumulated one on top of another." Jim Collins --- Good to Great
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swingdoc Junior Member Offline Improving One Day at a Time Posts: 79 Location: Over the rainbow Joined: 12/07/07 Gender:	Re: Most Instructive Book on Calculation. Reply #2 - 06/04/09 at 05:30:34	Post Tools	Print Post
	Improve Your Chess Now by Tisdall


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Gerry1970 Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 482 Joined: 02/01/06	Re: Most Instructive Book on Calculation. Reply #1 - 06/04/09 at 00:13:25	Post Tools	Print Post
	Hello Antillian: You may have seen the following thread already? It's not exactly what you are looking for but may be close? http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1208175635/12#12 Gerry


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Antillian God Member Offline Brilliance without dazzle! Posts: 1757 Joined: 01/05/03 Gender:	Most Instructive Book on Calculation. 06/03/09 at 13:08:36	Post Tools	Print Post
	I have finally got around to doing some really hard work on improving my calculation skills, as recommended in many a book - namely spending significant type trying to work out all the variations in a difficult positions and then comparing my analysis to that in the book. Apart from that though, I am trying to figure out what is the single most instructive book on calculation i.e the one most helpful in trying to develop the optimal thinking process and discipline. The ones I actually have decorating my shelf are as follows: Kosten's "Think Like a Grandmaster" Bein's "How to Calculate Chess Tactics" Doversky's "Attack and Defence in Chess" Soltis' "The Inner Game of Chess" And I know there are others out there I have not got. So I am looking or opinions from persons who have actually worked through a book and gained from it at the 2100 ELO level or above. Which book are book is most instructive on calculation?

	"Breakthrough results come about by a series of good decisions, diligently executed and accumulated one on top of another." Jim Collins --- Good to Great
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