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The Road to Chess Improvement Alex Yermolinsky
Publisher: Gambit Publications

€�The Once-Feared Grand Prix Attack Rings Hollow.” The Road to Chess Improvement. Some say that learning about planning, key squares, minority attacks, and other positional aspects is the best way to improve at chess. So begins my journey down the long and winding "Road to Chess Improvement". Views are varied as to the best way to improve at chess. Book Review - The Road to Chess Improvement. Title:The Road to Chess Improvement Author:Alex Yermolinsky Publisher:Gambit Publications ISBN:3913993363. Become proficient at finding offensive and defensive tactics. On the road of exclusion chess improvement nonsense falls from the bandwagon every mile. It's too bad I only started my road to chess improvement now, at the very moment one of it's most inspiring bloggers is quitting. In this book the author passes on many of the insights he has gained over the years. The reason of wee improvement sofar: bad methods. Chess is not an easy game, but this is what draws us to it. Yermolinsky's and Rowson's books, The Road To Chess Improvement and Seven Deadly Chess Sins/Chess For Zebras could also form the basis of a systematic approach to improving one's game. He steers the reader away from "quick-fix" approaches, and focuses on the critical areas of chess understanding and over-the-board decision-making. Yermolinsky's supposed “refutation” amounts to recommending 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 e6 4.Nf3 Nge7 5.Bb5?! I will publish games that I play (win, lose, or draw) that have instructive value. If you've followed this Blog, you have heard me make frequent mention of GM Alex Yermolinksy and this book. Yemolinsky is a noted chess writer and instructor.