About the book
A chess training manual by Alexander Kotov that sets out how a grandmaster thinks and, more importantly, how he works. It takes up when and how to analyze a position, the tree of analysis, the choice of candidate moves and the factors behind success.
Tyler Cowen said it showed him that a player can believe he understands a chess position and only later find he did not, and that real learning comes from working on actual problems.
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Tyler Cowen (Founder/Marginal Revolution University)
From this book I realized you could think you understood a chess position, but then later learn you didn’t really understand it at all. A huge lesson, one I learned again and to a higher degree when high-quality chess computers came along. Most of the commentariat on economic and social affairs could use a reminder on this one. This book also taught me that you learn by doing — trying to solve actual problems — not so much from pure reading. Or the two in close conjunction. It may be the distortions of memory, but still I feel this is one of the best books I ever have read. Hail the Soviet training system!
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