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Thomas Willemze
What Would You Play?
Test Your Chess and Improve Your Decision-Making
New In Chess 2024
© 2024 New In Chess
Published by New In Chess, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
www.newinchess.com
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permission from the publisher.
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Editing, typesetting: Frank Erwich
Proofreading: Mariska de Mie
Production: Sandra Keetman
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ISBN: 978-90-833827-0-8
For Amy, Olaf, and Emma
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
- Piece activity
Chapter 2
- Irreversible decisions
Chapter 3
- Diagonals
Chapter 4
- Files and ranks
Chapter 5
- Pawn play
Chapter 6
- The king in the middle
Chapter 7
- Attacking the Achilles’ Heel
Chapter 8
- Converting an advantage
Chapter 9
- Bonus games
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Introduction
A common advice to aspiring chess players is to study the games of
the World Champions or watch how a top grandmaster outplays a
much lower-rated opponent. Both methods are undeniably effective
but fail to give you a realistic view of how the game is being played
at an amateur level.
Improve your decision-making skills
This book fills this gap by presenting you 30 highly instructive
amateur games and engaging you in the tough decisions amateur
players have to make. Each game starts with a brief introduction and
four exercises that put you in the driver’s seat. This way, you can
experience the complexity of the positions yourself and
simultaneously train your decision-making skills. Each set of
exercises is followed by a detailed analysis where you can enjoy the
complete game and compare your answers along the way.
What would you play?
The games in this book are a collection of the ‘What would you
play?’ columns in New In Chess magazine. The games are
categorized into nine different chapters containing the most
instructive topics for amateur players. Each chapter starts with an
introduction highlighting the most important techniques to bring you
up to speed for the exercises and ends with a set of summarizing
flash cards.
Take your time!
I advise you to put the positions from the exercises on a chessboard,
take your time and only write down your answer when you would
have been ready to play it in a real game. When you finish the
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exercises, you can study the game analysis on the subsequent pages
and compare it with your own conclusions.
Have fun!
I sincerely hope you will enjoy reading this book, and I wish you all
the best in your chess career! If you have any comments regarding
this book or stories to tell about how you were able to apply your
new skills in your games, please feel free to reach out to me at
chesstoolbox@outlook.com.
Thomas Willemze
Haarlem, November 2023
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