School of Chess Excellence

[Javier]

ISBN: 3-283-00416-1

Year of publication: 2001

Publisher:Edition Olms

Pages: 260

 

This book is mainly geared towards the advanced player, I'd say +2300, possibly more.

The book is as good as any of thes previous books written by Mark Dvoretsky, one of the best coaches in the world: Opening preparation, Secrets of chess tactics, Training for the tournamente player, etc.

Here you can find endgame ideas played by some of the top players. There are also lots of exercises, some of them very difficult even for a master!

 

I wish Dvoretsky had spent a little more time talking about his "out of the board" experience with his students: what happens when a student doesn't assimilate the ideas, how do you motivate players, how does he deal with the failure of his students and so on.

Also, I miss some down to earth practical advice: apparently you can only get better by the "follow the example" method. Instead, Dvoretsky just gives us a collection of examples, very high level ones, but were the topics chosen at random? I don't really see anything that links the topics.