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About Play Like A World Champion: Bobby Fischer
IntroductionThis book is similar to Rate Your Chess and Rate Your Chess 2 which proved surprisingly popular. It uses a system developed by FIDE master Bill Jordan for coaching.This book features Bobby Fischer who became world chess champion in 1972 after defeating Spassky. Fischer suggested that the format of the championship be changed so that draws did not count. He lost the title in 1975 by default to Karpov, after some, but not all of his proposals were implemented. Bobby Fischer was from the US. Boris Spassky was a great attacking, sacrificial and positional player.How many of his moves can you guess? Playing through GamesPlaying through master games is a proven method of improving. One method is to take one side, usually the winning side, and guess the next move. In the pre-computer era this could be done by covering up the moves with a sheet of cardboard. If you guessed correctly you will score. With practice you will correctly predict more moves. Doing so helps develop chess fluency.One suggested approach was not to take too long on the moves, say about 10 seconds or so. You could score correct guesses. If the move was totally unexpected, then it would be a good time to see if you could understand why the move was played. Every move should have a clear idea behind it. If you cannot see the idea, there is a learning opportunity there.Here there is between one and four choices. This is similar to a multiple choice exam. This is easier than looking at all moves and may mean you examine some moves you would not have normally considered.DiagramsThis book has many large clear colour diagrams. You do not need a chess set and board to read this book. You do need to know how to read standard chess notation.How to ScoreThis book consists of games from World Championships with brief annotations for each move. You may simply play over the games for their own sake. To get the most out of this book yo
