The Thinking Process in Chess: Exercises and Insights From a Coach's Perspective

The purpose of The Thinking Process in Chess is to provide a resource to aid in development of chess skill for advanced players. The benefit can be twofold: first, the exercise of concrete calculation and evaluation skill by solving the positions. Second, the absorption of more general concepts provided in the solutions on the basis of concrete examples. We have always tried to take a specific example and not only explain it in itself, but also try to help the reader see what lessons for chess thinking processes in general can be derived from it. There is not a single overarching theme these exercises are supposed to illustrate, but the recurring motif is striving for optimal activity above all. This, in author's evaluation, is not so much the feature of these specific positions, but rather the result the nature of chess as a game that always turns out to reward active and attacking play above purely material or defensive concerns