This is a BRAND NEW vintage paperback classic collectible book.  This is a great price, and this book is a great opportunity to improve your library with a collectible as well as improve your game !  If you are familiar with Think Like a Grandmaster or Play Like A Grandmaster, you will want to own this book.  This is the original Batsford book and it still has a "Batsford" price sticker on the back (says  L4.95).

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Kotov's highly publicized graphic presentation of tree-analyzes is the Kotov-method. This was the method catapulting Kotov to super GM strength.

 

SOVIET Grandmaster Alexander Kotov (1913-1981) was both a top ranking player and a world-famous author/champion/contender, but is known in the west for his books Think Like a Grandmaster, Grandmaster At Work and Play Like a Grandmaster along with this book.  This book is a collection of his best, and is a textbook of practical chess play.  This book assumes the character of a textbook on most important aspects of chess theory.  It explains the "laboratory of a chess player" --  Kotov.

 

A look at the way in which grandmasters prepare for different aspects of the game and how Soviet training methods can help club or tournament players whatever their standard. Kotov, a Grandmaster, is also the author of "Think Like a Grandmaster," "Grandmaster At Work" and "Play Like a Grandmaster".