Street Smart Chess (hardcover)

Street Smart Chess is a guide that will make you score more points. When is it worth playing hard to win? Or safe for a tie? And how do you adapt your style of play accordingly?

GM Axel Smith answers these questions using a world-class player as a model for each chapter. Learn how Magnus Carlsen scored victories from level positions; how David Navara beat lower ranked opponents, and how Baskaran Adhiban beat higher ranked ones! Or pull out and fly in the opening like Peter Heine Nielsen.

Playing well is a good start in chess, but you also have to be Street Smart.

Axel Smith is the award-winning author of The Woodpecker Method, Pump Up Your Rating and e3 Poison, which were enthusiastically received by readers and critics. Using the woodpecker as part of his training, as an adult he improved from a rating of 2100 to becoming a Grandmaster.