Sharpen Up Your Chess

In this

long-awaited second Thinkers-book of International Master, Armin Juhasz, the reader is

invited to take a seat in his classroom and follow his useful guidelines how to

improve your practical play. The emphasis is on general principles that readers

will be able to use in their own games, and detailed analysis is always given

where it is necessary. Each game and fragment contain many lessons and

practical tips, guiding the reader through the most important ideas in each

phase of the game. This book illustrates an increasingly prevalent and

successful style of play, a method that begins by slowly accumulating small but

permanent advantages. The author does a very good job of explaining the key

points of the game in such a way that the reader is given a true account of

what is happening and not some watered down version. Translating the muddy

world of modern master chess into something that is understandable to the

layman, is a skill Armin mastered.