Chess Recipes from the Gradmaster's Kitchen
by Valeri Beim

An experienced trainer and grandmaster explains key principles of chess strategy and thinking methods in chess.

His "recipes' include:

• Tactical ideas in the middlegame

• Liquidation to the endgame

• The technique of analysing variations

• Inverted thinking in chess

Throughout, you will be presented with new ways of looking at chessboard issues that will help you develop a deeper understanding of the game. Every chapter contains stunning examples of the themes, together with challenging exercises where you can put your new insights to the test.

Valeri Beim is a grandmaster who lives in Austria. He has won numerous tournaments and plays in the Austrian and German leagues. For many years he was the head trainer at the chess school in Odessa, and he was also the trainer of the Israeli olympiad team. This is his first chess book.

-This book is aimed at those players who consider chess a hobby but who are also interested in a permanent improvement of their results. In this book you won't find any long opening lines. There isn't a description of any secret ways to achieve immediate success either. In nature such secrets simply do not exist.
So what is this book about?
From my early chess education I was fascinated (and still am!) by the skill of great players in finding the best solution in any kind of position. However, even when one of the best players annotates his games, one typically finds long variations together with positional assessments in order to prove the correctness of the player's decisions; there is rarely anything about how those decisions were made.
So I thought to myself: "Well, I like to watch their games and read their comments, but I am much more interested in being able to find good moves myself. Thus I want to explore the secrets of the grandmasterly thinking process!"
It took me years to penetrate to the heart of this problem.
With this book I would like to introduce you to some results from my studies. Although I deal with many different topics, the chapters share a common goal: to show the birth of a solution in the 'brain' of a grandmaster and how the reader can use the same methods.
In my opinion. Chapter 2 (Inverse Thinking in Chess) is of special interest. As far as I know this subject has neither been formulated nor described before. In this respect the author may truly regard himself as an explorer-

Valeri Beim - Wels, Austria -December 2001

Euro 21,90

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