Elements of Positional Evaluation: How the Pieces Get Their Power

By Dan Heisman

Book Overview

Which side stands better? How much better? Why?

Most chess players rely on loosely knit, unstructured methods to evaluate chess pieces and positions. They learn positional principles which often lead to inaccurate evaluations and faulty decisions about how to proceed.

This ground-breaking book by best-selling chess author Dan Heisman addresses the evaluation and understanding of how static features affect the value of the pieces in a given position. Now in its fourth edition, emphasis is placed on the static evaluation of each piece's value and its role in the overall position rather than the assessment of a specific position, but Heisman's approach can also be applied to help evaluate entire positions by helping to answer the questions who stands better, by how much, and why?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949859622
• ISBN13: 9781949859621
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Russell Enterprises
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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This book is an excellent discussion of the elements of positional chess, for the intermediate player. This subject has been looked at in "The Middle Game in Chess" by Znosko-Borovsky and in "A Primer of Chess" by Capablanca. Most of the books on the market which discuss positional chess present an endless parade of games, which you have to play through in order to understand the concepts. Heisman's book has a readability that these other books lack. Heisman's concepts will make you a better positional chess player, and deserve serious attention from academics who wish to understand the heuristics which make up the positional style of play.