Ajedrez con Zlotnik

This book is an excellent tool for making progress in chess. It is aimed at club players with an ELO level between 1600 and 2200, and deals in a playful and fun way with the core themes of the game: how to decide a move, how to train tactical or positional play, how to play openings and finals. Each chapter contains ingenious exercises to strengthen understanding and practical application of each concept.

Boris Zlotnik is here it foams chess. In 1963 he got a place to study at the prestigious school of Mikhail Botvinnik, the patriarch of Soviet chess, where Karpov and Kasparov later studied. There he obtained an exceptional training, which he developed as a teacher at the National Institute of Physical Education (INEF) in Moscow and at the Spanish University of Distance Education (UNED), when he emigrated to Spain in 1993. He was also the coach of American champion Fabiano Caruana, who moved to Madrid to train with him. In addition to the countless articles for newspapers and magazines, he wrote the Half Game Manual, another essential resource for the development and advancement of this sport.