Mastering Chess Strategy
This book touches on a wide range of subjects related to middle-game strategy. Each subject comes with some explanatory examples, and in the second half of the book, you will find related exercises. I am a strong supporter of the intensive use of exercises in the learning process. In my opinion, the closer you can get to a game situation when you are training (or teaching) chess, the faster progress can be expected. In his excellent work Logika Sovremennyh Shahmat (Modern Chess Logic), Belarusian writer and grandmaster Viacheslav Dydyshko mentions that one major problem faced by chess students is that the theoretical knowledge acquired from literature remains "alien" to us for a long time.
In the heat of the battle, we will probably rely on what our intuition tells us, and, unfortunately, that doesn't always coincide with our knowledge. Advancing his thoughts a little further, it is one thing to read through and understand a couple of Rubinstein's rook endgames, and quite another to be able to play them like him! Naturally, any new chess knowledge has to be integrated in our minds with such depth that we are able to swiftly apply it in practice, even if a long time has passed since the learning moment. School kids often memorize a lot of facts before an exam and forget most of them within a few weeks. I, for one, would not like to repeat today my French or math exams from 1990.
In contrast, chess players need to store the information for a long time and retrieve it without much delay. In this context, I believe that exercises, along with normal games and their posterior analysis, are one of the best tools. Compare the case of learning languages: few people are able to speak a new language confidently after just reading through a few text and grammar books. What most of us need is practice,
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