Play Like a World Champion: Mikhail Botvinnik

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IntroductionOne of the joys of chess is improving your understanding and skill.Another joy is to play through the games of masters. This book combines the two. You receive a ratingfor each game you play through.It uses a system developed by FIDE master Bill Jordan for coaching students. This is used in the books Rate Your Chess and Rate Your Chess 2.Book SeriesHere are all the world champions in this series.SteinitzLaskerCapablancaAlekhineEuweBotvinnikSmyslovTalPetrosianSpasskyFischerKarpovKasparovAnandKramnikCarlsenInstructionsPlaying through master games is a proven method of improving. You will learn by simply playing over the games.You will learn more by taking a more active role. You take the winning side and guess the next move. With a printed book this can be done by covering the moves with a sheet of cardboard. The sheet could be moved down one line at a time. You do not need to guess the first 8-10 moves of the opening.You are given up to 4 candidate moves to choose from.The correct move is shown on the next page.Note that Look Inside removes all page breaks.In the complete book the page breaks will be there.If you guess correctly you will score points which will range from 0 to 6. You can either write down or otherwise keep track of your total score and see what category you reach.With practice you will correctly predict more moves. Doing so helps develop chess fluency. In other words, you improve your chess intuition or feel for the right move.There are brief annotations for each move which describe the idea behind why a