![]() ![]() ![]() The mistakes, and the instructive methods of taking advantage of them, will be familiar to them from similar happenings in their own games. One of the surest ways for a club player to improve his playing ability is to study annotated games featuring players of similar strength to themselves. Yes, it might be inspirational to look at games played by top grandmasters, but it’s always been my view that club standard players will learn more from games played at their level than from GM games. In one sense, yes, but in another sense the soul of chess is the mass of club and tournament players, without whom the chess world wouldn’t function. ![]() Philidor wrote that pawns are the soul of chess. In doing so, he isolates typical mistakes and explains the methods of taking advantage of them. In this, his fourth book, he aims to instruct his readers by dissecting 110 games played by local players at all levels of chess. Senior International Master Mike Read competed 115 times for the England and Great Britain teams at correspondence chess, including playing on board one for England in the 13th Olympiad. ![]()
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