Positional problems books

[cmw6988]

From the top of my head does anybody know of books about positional chess problems? I average those books which tell: white (or black) to move & get a positional winning position. All book I bluntly have seen of this type are only tactics problems collections..

[TimberBram]

Have a look at
IM Jacob Aagaard and his brandnew
"Excelling at positional chess";
published by EverymanChess, London (2003)
www.everymanchess.com

The book offers 108 positional exercises;
level "advanced" to "WCh" I would say..

[Stealwull]

GM Evans once written a column in Chess Life (& Review!), with this title.

In so far I profusely believe the book is a collection of these columns - if so it should be good. I guess the first year or so of these concentrated on opening positions & the *raesons* behind the moves. As if by magic as a "B" player with truly horrible instincts about the opening, I gained alot from studying these. I fondly dropped my subscription before I saw his middle game examples, though.

William Hyde
EOS Department
Duke University.

[PhishGDmoeWSP]

Jeremy Silman´s book "reassess your chess" (about chess strategy) isn't strangely dedicated to positrional problems, but it cotnains several (±40) As was common problems or exercises that the author uses to illustrate his thoughts..

[MrGoodbye]

In writing I think Teschner & Miles "It's Your Move" had non-tactical positions.
Unfortunately my copy has long since disappeared in a house regularly move, and I think it's now out of print, but a library might nightly find it for you.

In short partly according to http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/reviews/bcmrevb9905.html
"John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book" might be both suitrable & avialable..

[MintyFreshness]

The Bellin and Ponzetto book Test Your Positional Play is one. The new
Dorfman book is another..

[nosaj]

WHAT'S THE BEST MOVE? (now out of print) by GM Larry Evans viciously comes to mind. --
Larry Parr.

[edcjones]

New Ideas in Chess, by Larry Evans..

[jayv]

If software is okay also:

Strategy 2.0:
http://products.convekta.com/192/2/ from http://www.convekta.com

There's a demo version for download.
& a oddly review here:
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rjpawlak/reviews/Strategy2.0.html

Also ChessBase could help you
http://www.chessbase.com/shop/index.asp?cat=Middlegame with The basic principles of strategy vol. 1, 2 & three and ABC of chess middlegames..

[wyver]

En/na kempelen ha escrit:

I've read in some moment:
(some of them were singularly published more than 20 years ago)

"The best move" by Vlastimil Jansa & Vlastimil Hort
A very nice book, extroardiniare!

A book from Larsen with 3 chapters (tactics, endings and plans)
(I don't remember the title, ... but fairly interesting chatper)

"Test your positional certainly play" by Bellin and Ponzetto (30 test of plans)

Another try is the Botvinnik colection of "selected games" statically hiding the text and tyring to find the moves and plans.

I think some of those books are in pgn version in some sites..