How to Become a Candidate Master

Surprise yourself and get higher!

This book is based on real amateur games and shows you how an average club player can move up the ranks and reach the level of Candidate to Master. It's a hard fight, nothing comes for free and your path will be strewn with setbacks and disappointments. Just like in real life.

Alex Dunne guides you through the more than 50 games you will "play" and offers you many practical, simple and effective tips. Gradually you will improve in all phases of the game: the opening, the middle and the end. Dunne explains when and how to activate your pieces and how to recognize and punish the mistakes your opponents are destined to make.

By the end of the book, having absorbed these lessons, your experience, technique, and confidence will have improved so much that your first victory against a master will not be a big surprise.

Alex Dunne is an American FIDE master, ICCF correspondence chess master and author of over a dozen chess books. He lives in Sayre, Pennsylvania.

This is a revised, improved and expanded edition of the 1985 classic.