Invisible Chess Moves: Discover Your Blind Spots and Stop Overlooking Simple Wins

by Emmanuel Neiman, Yochanan Afek

Every chess player knows that some moves are harder to see than others. Why is it that, frequently, uncomplicated wins simply do not enter your mind? Even strong grandmasters suffer from blind spots that obscure some of the best ideas during a game. What is often both players fail to see the opportunity that is right in front of their eyes. Neiman and Afek have researched this problem and discovered that there are actually reasons why your brain discards certain ideas. In this book they demonstrate different categories of hard-to-see chess moves and clearly explain the psychological, positional and geometric factors which cloud your brain. Invisible Chess Moves with its many unique examples, instructive explanations and illuminative tests, will teach how to discover your blind spots and see the moves which remain invisible for others. Your results at the board will improve dramatically because your brain will stop blocking winning ideas.

Genres: Chess, Nonfiction, Reference

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2009

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 2 out of 5]

Has four main sections based on why moves are difficult to see. All quite instructive, but hard to find takeaways. Backward piece moves is the one that stuck with me.

[Isaac Jackson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Good