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David Smerdon shows how you can use tricks from psychology to marshal hidden resources and exploit your opponent's biases

CHESS magazine

Examples are drawn from recent practice or from little-known studies

Aagaard: Attacking Manual 2 improvers d4 it offers White anThe old masters dealt only with the static features of positional rules. But, these are insufficient to explain the basics of chess. The problem is that chess, like other sciences, has undergone a dynamic revolution, but chess literature does not yet reflect this. In this major work Aagaard explains the rules of attack (the exploitation of a dynamic advantage), balanced between understandable examples, and deep analysis. Five years in the making, this