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  • Associative Thinking: How to Connect Patterns and Creativity in Chess

    Associative Thinking by Shereshevsky, Mikhail;

    How to Connect Patterns and Creativity in Chess

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    Product details:

    • Publisher New In Chess
    • Date of Publication 7 May 2025

    • ISBN 9789083431345
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Size 235x170 mm
    • Weight 500 g
    • Language English
    • 618

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    Long description:

    This book by Mikhail Shereshevsky, one of the most respected chess trainers in the world, is about a very important but little-explored topic: associative thinking. How can a modern chess student avoid drowning in the flood of information? The answer is to stop mechanically memorizing moves and turn on your curiosity. Try to create a vivid image of the technique you are studying and remember it as an association!


    During a game of chess, we have associations all the time. We are not talking about specific pawn structures, but about more abstract things. What is the best interaction between knight and pawn? Where should the rook be placed – behind the passed pawn or to the side? On which squares should you place your pawns when you have a bishop against a knight? Generations of chess players before us have answered these and similar questions.


    Shereshevsky clearly shows that studying the games of great chess players will help you to improve your associative thinking, especially when the comments come from the players themselves. The author pays special attention to such outstanding grandmasters as Ulf Andersson, Anatoly Karpov, Vladimir Kramnik, and Magnus Carlsen.


    As with all of Shereshevsky’s books, this manual offers supreme examples of chess training excellence. Studying this book will improve your understanding of chess enormously and help you on your way to chess mastery.

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