Would you pay $30 for a one-hour private lesson with a grandmaster? How about $30 for a couple dozen lessons with a GM? That’s what this book feels like. Lars Bo Hansen has a talent for really relating to the “average” club player.
As he describes his own chess development, “I had to learn a few lessons the hard way, as I never had a chess trainer (except for the first few years where I attended a school chess club every Friday), I had to do everything myself – choose my openings, analyse my own games and those of others, decide which books to study to improve, and so on. There was nothing extraordinary about this – that was (and still is) the basic condition for a young talent growing up in a small Western country like Denmark without much of a chess culture.”
Nothing extraordinary except that Hansen won multiple Danish scholastic/junior championships, made IM by age 19, and GM at age 22. This book is Hansen’s guide to self-training, particularly suited for players with little or no access to outside coaches.
You can read my full review of this outstanding book here.
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