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Building Up Your Chess gives you an innovative and refreshingly understandable approach to chess mastery by one of the most renowned teachers in the world. The ability to judge a position accurately is at the heart of good chess. What's more, learning to evaluate builds all of your skills in all phases of chess - opening, middlegame and ending.
Lev Alburt introduces you to his own invention, "The System of Predicted Results," as well as to a pictorial way of graphing a game that tracks and explains its move-by-move evaluation. You'll learn how to master one position at a time, see how opening discoveries are made, and improve quickly with question-and-answer sessions.
Whether you're a beginner or a master, you'll soon be playing up to your true potential and enjoying chess more as you understand it better.
Building Up Your Chess is an expanded, updated and redesigned edition of a previous best-seller, Test & Improve Your Chess.
Grandmaster Lev Alburt, three-time US Champion and former European Champion, is famous for providing aspiring players easy access to master-level ideas. He is the only top-echelon GM to develop time-efficient, maximum-impact lessons for those below master strength.