Classic Amateur Mistakes and How To Fix Them

"Classic Amateur Mistakesand How To Fix Them" is an essentialread for the aspiring tournament chess player.

Experienced Author and coach GrandmasterDaniel Gormally argues that amateur players have a different outlook on chesscompared to more experienced and professional players.

Due to a lack of confidence in their chesscalculation, they often struggle to deal with concrete positions and willsuccumb to paralysis by analysis. If you ask an amateur player about a typicalchess position, they will often waffle on in such a way about the generalfeatures of the position to the extent that your eyes will glaze over. Ask aprofessional player about that same position, and by contrast they will bombardyou with variations.

In this entertaining, humorous andentertaining read, Gormally gives his reasons why this is and tries to explainhow they can improve, as well as also analysing other classic amateur mistakes,like moving a piece too often and not attacking enough.

The sum result is a tome that will not onlyhelp the amateur player to achieve better results but will also give them aconsistent process going forward at the board that they feel comfortable with.