Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player demystifies chessboard planning, giving you the practical, game-winning techniques you could spend years gathering on your own. Each idea is explained and illustrated using games carefully chosen for their instructive clarity and power.

International Grandmaster Lev Alburt, a three-time US champion and former European Champion, is called the "grandmaster of chess teachers."

This famed teacher who helps students of all strengths and ages, has spent years translating secret lesson plans used to produce a long line Soviet world champions. The Comprehensive Chess Course series is the result.

Co-author Sam Palatnik, a former captain of the Ukrainian squad that won the silver medal in the world team championship ahead of Russia! GM Palatnik is renowned for putting strategic ideas into practice many of brilliant ides included this book.

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Praises for The Comprehensive Chess Course

Charles Murray , author of 'What It Means to be a Libertarian':
"The Comprehensive Chess Course is simply the best chess instruction I have ever seen. I am a player who has been reading chess books for 40 years without getting better (..)

Lev Alburt taught me basic things about the game that none of the other books ever taught me. He is a brilliant teacher, and his books capture brilliance."

GM Maxim Dugly, former World Junior Chess Champion and former US Chess Federation President:
"In the Comprehensive Chess Course Volumes 3, 4 and 5, Grandmaster Lev Alburt boldly promises to deliver the most effective tactics, strategies and the best techniques for attack and defense of the king (..)

He has managed to live up completely to his pledge. A truly great work!"