Think Like a Chess Master: Planning

by Neil McDonald

This is part of the "Think Like a Chess Master" series, written by young ambitious players on popular topics. It uses questions and exercises to draw the reader into the subject, and offers practical tips which will bring results.
The ability to form good plans is one of the key aspects of chess mastery. It is only by forming a coherent plan that brilliant sacrifices and fiendish counterattacks can be devised.
Many players can obtain good positions from the opening; do they always know what to do next? Studying this work should help players of all standards to think more clearly about what is important in their games and thus plan more successfully.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995