Grandmaster Chess Strategy

Jurgen Kaufeld & Guido Kern

What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces.

Strategy lessons based on the games of a chess legend.

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Authors Jurgen Kaufeld and Guido Kern have selected and annotated 80 of Swedish Grandmaster Ulf Andersson's games and grouped them into 15 thematic strategy lessons. Studying the games of a great player, understanding his choices and examining his style, is an excellent way of improving your own play.

Andersson, who reached the rank of World No.4 in the FIDE ratings list, is an excellent player to try to emulate because of his clear, positional playing style.
The instructive verbal explanations to these games, provided by the authors, will help to improve your strategic skills and your positional feeling.

Guido Kern is an International Master and an experienced chess trainer for the German Chess Federation. Jurgen Kaufeld is a FIDE master who works as a chess trainer.

Published 2011, softback, 223 pages.