2 really good resources for early intermediate players:
- Youtube "Akobian" - he reviews a lot of games and his strength is positional chess. You'll learn tons, and it's crystal clear when he presents it, and appropriately paced for mortals to follow. Great stuff.
- Ray Cheng's book "Practical Chess Exercises" is an excellent mix of tactics and 'positional tactics'. It's literally the only book on positional tactics I've come across, and its a good one.
All,
I'm reading about Igor Smirnov's Training called GM's Positional Understanding. For those of you have done the course, I found the PDF that apparently accompanies the training which is 398 pages. My question is "is this just the training in paper form"? or is the vids required together with the PDF? I'm assuming that "positional chess" is similar or the same as "strategy" and if not please let me know.
Also, aside of his course, do any of you know solid resources/trainings(Prefereably that are Interacive, but not required) that are ACTUALLY GOOD for learning positional chess/strategy. I have heard of CONVECTA but have never used their stuff. Also I heard that Chessbase had a 3 DVD course that was great but is now impossible to get. Also I've heard that chess4less.com has some stuff by Danny King (Powerplay Series) and Carson Mueller but once again... never tried it. Thoughts anyone for a USCF 1250 +/- player?
-TheKnightOne