School of Future Champions 1: Secrets Of Chess Training (School of Future Champions Series) Paperback – June 1, 2022

Secrets of Chess Training: School of Future Champions (Book One) – Buyer’s ReviewA must-read for serious chess players. This book offers deep insights into top-level training methods, emphasizing discipline and strategy. The exercises are challenging but rewarding, making it ideal for those striving for mastery. While intense for beginners, it’s a goldmine for dedicated learners. Highly recommended!

This is one of a series of quite advanced material aimed at the experienced tournament player who is very serious about improving his play. As you may know, many consider Dvoretsky to be the best chess trainer in the world when it comes to helping advanced players. This is about as basic a book as you will find from Mark, but it is still very challenging and at times quite difficult to work through. But even a less advanced player (say, 1500 USCF or so) can find some nuggets here that you will not find in more popular but less 'serious' books. Advanced advice on studying your own games, coming to grips with deficiencies in your play ( a topic near and dear to the 'Soviet School' of chess, which was famous for encouraging players to be brutally honest in confronting and eradicating weaknesses in their play), how to study chess classics, etc are worth their weight in gold. This will not likely be your main volume to work from unless you are already a strong (say 1900-2100 USCF) player, and highly motivated, but even as a less skilled and dedicated player, I have been able to dip into it and find some nuggets not available to me in more basic instructional manuals. Highly recommended for its target audience, and optional for less dedicated players.

I literally just received this book in the mail and sat down with it for a few minutes just to see what it was about. In those few minutes (which turned into an hour), I was given more information about how to study the chess games of masters AND how to study my own chess games for maximum benefit than I had in all the other books I have looked combined!!I was hoping this book would give me that info and it already has. I would normally not write a review for a book I have not been through but then I normally don't get this much information or inspiration on a first perusal.Many books and chess improvement literature tell you to study classic chess games. Some even give you slight hints on possible methods for doing so. I have yet to see any methods shown for studying your own games...until this book.If I have this much to go on after one hour with the book, imagine how much benefit I will get from studying the book! More on that later!

A nice study on how to improve one's chess game. It seems one of the best ways to get better at chess is to learn how to learn to play chess -- its pedagogy. Although the chapters in this book are not progressive, the variety of chapters allows the learner to pick and choose the study. My ELO is only 1900, so I would not recommend this book to beginners.

If you are >1600 uscf and want to improve this is a great book. Covering topics from opening prep, how to study, and recommended books (some are only avail in russian). This to me is a classic book, and a must have for that 1600 plateau.

Another excellent book byAnother great book by the world's best trainer!

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Many professional chess book reviewers claim this is for the advanced player (FIDE rating of 2000+). ([...]) It "goes without saying" that anything by Dvoretsky is for the serious player who wants to put in the time and has an extensive chess background.Most of the articles are very good, however the exercises are way to easy to be useful (if you read the articles). My disappointment was mainly that this book is a collection of seemingly random and unconnected articles/lectures, few of them had anything to do with actual "chess training." The ones that did were very creative and different than what most Western players are familiar/comfortable with...I suppose if you are at that the level where one idea will make that much of a difference you might get something out of this book... however, if you need a system of thought or some teaching on a process then look elsewhere.