Build Up Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals

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This is a must read for all players around 1000 - 1400. Covers all aspects of chess. The book has 24 chapters with a test at the end of each chapter and also a final test revising all the chapters. There are 11 chapters on tactics, 4 chapters on endgames, 3 chapters on positional play and 2 chapters on calculation, strategy and opening. The book is written in such a way that you enjoy it. This is the most helpful book I have read.

Book is good but corner packaging should be done by chessbase india.

Livro caiu como uma luva para o meu nível. Devo comprar o restante da série

I am currently working through the 4 yellow books and I absolutely love them. My current Elo rating is around 1800, it was around 1960 about 40 years ago before I stopped playing chess completely for nearly 40 years. So I thought that the yellow books might be a bit too easy for me and I could start with the blue ones and work up to the green ones, but actually I am very challenges with the yellow ones. They are very dense and they seem to cover all technical aspects of chess, especially for the middlegame and the endgame. In the meanwhile I came across some rather critical reviews about this series which state that it was mislabelled and were far too challenging for beginners and intermediate players. So, I guess it is okay for me to be challenged with these books. But improving needs some challenges and some serious effort. So I am happy with not finishing every exam (each chapter closes with an exam) with excellent or very good but even fail in part of the exams which means I should work through that chapter again. If you are ok with a book series which brings you to your limits - for expanding these limits - and adresses an Elo range comparingly low, this book abosultely might be for you. One of the best ever chess books I have bouth so far.

Build Up Your Chess、Boost Your Chess、Chess Evolutionと続く最初のコースの第１巻。IntroductionでElo 1500以下、Elo 1800以下、Elo 2100以下のコースを開講したことからこのシリーズが出来上がったとあるから、上記のコースはこのレイティングに対応しているのだと思う。 ２４のレッスンがあり、各レッスンの最後に試験がある。合格点に達しないともう一度勉強しなさいということになる。全体の最後にまた試験がある。試験の部分は手番が示されるだけでノーヒント。 レッスンはページの外側（綴じていない方）に盤面があり、綴じ目の方に説明がある。本を小さく開いて、まず考えることができるように工夫されている。 私の棋力では、難しすぎず、易しすぎず、ちょうど良いレベルだと思う。楽しみながら力がつきそうである。

Me habían hablado bien de ésta serie y las reseñas en internet eran buenas, pero tenía mis dudas. Sin embargo el material es muy bueno; me siento muy satisfecho con el libro y creo, aunque solo estoy comenzando, que será para trabajar la serie!!!

I ordered this book after playing a few hundred online games and felt that I was hitting a wall in terms of strategy at the ~1000 mark. This book covers a nice range of topics that are each illustrated by diagrams and the line played for half a dozen examples, with the instruction then to turn your attention to a dozen exercises to pull off the chapter's strategy. You will need to sit down, set out the position in the exercise, and then stare at the board trying to find the best sequence. If this sounds intimidating -- this book might not be for you! But if you are at the position where you are playing online or club games where you can evaluate 3, 4 or 5 move lines in your head, this book will be perfect, as most of the exercises require only that many moves for a solution. Yusupov doesn't add much in evaluation or explanation of the tactical themes -- this book is presented plainly as a "Get on with it!" style of instruction after a quick summary of the topic. However, the example games and exercises are all taken from high-level games from chess throughout the 20th century -- no tired retreading of 19th century classics here. Even better, the exercises often have multiple solutions, some better than others. I'd highly recommend this book if you're serious enough about chess to want to invest the time and effort to work through the exercises with a board.