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1. Thomas Willemze

1001 Chess Endgame Exercises for Club Players

Once you master the basics, the real fun begins: recognising advanced tactical patterns that decide games. For club players, success is no longer just about spotting a simple fork or checkmate; it's about combining motifs, exploiting weaknesses and calculating more deeply. In 1001 Chess Endgame Exercises for Club Players, International Master Thomas Willemze takes you beyond the fundamentals. He presents a wealth of challenging exercises that will sharpen your ability to recognise complex tactical resources in practical endgames. With most of the pieces off the board, endgame tactics offer the clarity to help you focus on what's important, free from the distractions of a few random pawns and pieces. This book is not just about calculation. It's about developing the pattern recognition and intuition that enable club players to make confident decisions under pressure. Willemze’s clear explanations and his trademark step-by-step approach help you to build the tactical sharpness and practical endgame skills needed to compete successfully in club and tournament games. Thomas Willemze is an International Master from the Netherlands. He is an experienced trainer of amateur players of all levels and has been the National Youth Coach of the Dutch Chess Federation. New In Chess has published his books The Chess Toolbox and The Scandinavian for Club Players, both of which very well received by reviewers and customers alike.

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1. Thomas Willemze

What Would You Play?

The best chess training closely resembles the activity you're training for. This book provides you with an essential component - decision-making in the crucial positions of a real game of chess, played by club players rather than grandmasters. You have to answer the same questions that you face when you stare at the chess board and have to find a move. Amateur games can be very instructive. Studying the games of top players will undoubtedly help you to improve. However, it is often more enlightening to make decisions or see mistakes at a lower level, as they are easier for most of us to relate to. Thomas Willemze has carefully selected thirty games that illustrate an important theme, for example: Dealing with irreversible moves Rerouting your rooks Aligning your bishop and pawns Converting a long-term advantage Taming the London Willemze is a master at choosing just the right positions to help you improve your chess knowledge and understanding. Thomas Willemze is an experienced chess trainer and International Master from the Netherlands. All thirty games in What Would You Play have been published in New In Chess magazine. Willemze has written five books for New In Chess, all of which are available as courses on Chessable.

1. Thomas Willemze

1001 Chess Endgame Exercises for Club Players

1. Thomas Willemze

World Champion Chess Strategy Training for Club Players

Chess players can look ahead, formulate a clear plan, and act accordingly. That's why chess is the perfect learning environment for becoming a strategic expert. But how do you train this? It starts with playing many games and analysing them carefully afterwards. At the same time, you should learn from the best by studying the games of the world's strongest players and gradually build their techniques into your play. This book offers you 100 strategic exercises from the games of the best of the best, the World Champions from Bobby Fischer to Ding Liren. You will learn foundational techniques such as: how to improve your worst-placed piece; how to exploit a lead in development; or make the right piece trade; and how to create a strong square; plus numerous others. Solving these exercises will help every ambitious club player better understand how to make and execute plans. Thomas Willemze is an International Master from the Netherlands. He is an experienced trainer of amateur players of all levels and has been the National Youth Coach of the Dutch Chess Federation. New In Chess has published his books The Chess Toolbox and The Scandinavian for Club Players and 1001 Chess Endgame Exercises for Beginners - all well-liked by reviewers and customers alike.

1. Thomas Willemze

1001 Chess Endgame Exercises for Beginners

The best place to start your tactics training is in the endgame! Chess is 99% tactics – and if you want to win more games, nothing works better than training tactics. Win a piece or find a mate. That will get you results. Since most of the pieces have left the board, endgame tactics have the clarity that enables you to grasp all basics concepts quickly and comprehensively. In the endgame, you can focus on what is important without any distractions by a couple of random pawns and pieces. In 1001 Chess Endgame Exercises for Beginners, IM Thomas Willemze does two things at once. He explains all the basic concepts, and provides you with a huge amount of exercises for each theme and each chess piece. Willemze uses all his experience as a coach, and his familiarity with the famous Step Method, to carefully build up your chess knowledge step-by-step. He shows you the strength of all pieces, from the lonely pawn to the almighty queen. And he guides you from the basics to more complex tactics in a highly instructive puzzle rush. Thomas Willemze is an International Master from the Netherlands. He is an experienced trainer of amateur players of all levels and has been the National Youth Coach of the Dutch Chess Federation. New In Chess has published his books The Chess Toolbox and The Scandinavian for Club Players, both of which very well received by reviewers and customers alike.