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Move First, Think Later: Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess
Author(s): Willy Hendriks (Author)
- Publisher: New in Chess
- Publication Date: 11 Jun. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789056913984
- ISBN-13: 9789056913984
Book Description
The only problem with that, says International Master Willy Hendriks, is that most books and courses on improving at chess claim exactly the opposite. The dogma of the chess instruction establishment is that if you only take a good look at certain ‘characteristics’ of a position, then good moves will follow more or less automatically.
But this is not how it happens. Chess players, weak and strong, don’t first judge the position, then formulate a plan and afterwards look at moves. It all happens at the same time, and pretending that it is otherwise is counterproductive. There is no use in forcing your students to mentally jump through theoretical hoops, according to experienced chess coach Hendriks.
This work shows a healthy distrust of accepted methods to get better at chess. It teaches that winning games does not depend on ticking off a to-do list when looking at a position on the board. It presents club and internet chess players with loads of much-needed no-nonsense training material. In this provocative, entertaining and highly instructive book, Hendriks shows how you can travel light on the road to chess improvement!
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Editorial Reviews
Review
–International Master Arthur van de Oudeweetering “ChessVibes”
I can’t really express just how much I enjoyed Move First Think Later by Willy Hendriks.
–Mark Crowther “The Week In Chess”
One of the most original chess books the judges have seen for a number of years. Both serious and highly entertaining at the same time.
–Judges of English Chess Federation
Really a fantastic book, loaded with fresh ideas and excellent examples. After reading this book you will feel like Neo in the film The Matrix, when he discovers that his life so far was an illusion and that his real life will start only now.
–Martin Rieger “Rochade Europa Magazine”
What a fantastic book! I have not enjoyed reading an instructional book so much in years. I was laughing out loud throughout, because it is very witty, but it is also a really important instructional volume.
–Steve Giddins
For anyone interested in chess in a broader context, I highly recommend reading Move First, Think Later by Willy Hendriks.–Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura
