Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player by Lev Alburt, Sam Palatnik

Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player demystifies chessboard planning, giving you the practical, game-winning techniques you could spend years gathering on your own. Each idea is explained and illustrated using games carefully chosen for their instructive clarity and power. This book stands alone. And it is the fifth volume of the Comprehensive Chess Course, a series that brings English readers the once strictly guarded and time-tested Russian training methods, the key to 50-year Russian dominance of the chess World. The Comprehensive Chess Course takes you from beginner to tournament expert. International Grandmaster Lev Alburt, a three-time US champion and former European Champion, is called the "grandmaster of chess teachers." This famed teacher who helps students of all strengths and ages, has spent years translating secret lesson plans used to produce a long line Soviet world champions. The Comprehensive Chess Course series is the result. Co-author Sam Palatnik, a former captain of the Ukrainian squad that won the silver medal in the world team championship ahead of Russia! GM Palatnik is renowned for putting strategic ideas into practice many of brilliant ides included this book.