Tangborn Eric. A Road To The Expert Title

Chess Digest, 1995. — 79 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-87568-270-7.The aim of this book is to focus on us what is necessary to become an expert. The important topics can be divided into three categories:1. You need an opening repertoire which fits your style and in which you have great confidence. Preferably the opening should be simple and not re­
quire a great deal of memorization. The way to learn an opening is by studying complete games and learning the strategies and tactics of typical
positions. Former World Champion Tigran Petrosian has written that the best and perhaps the only way to chess mastery is by studying games played by masters.2. You need to have good positional judgement judgement. That is, you need to have a strong feel for where to put your pieces and how to take advantage of structural weakness esses.3. You must be very sharp tactically. The best way to improve is to practice finding combinations. Buy a book on combinations and when you have a few spare moments, try to solve a few posi­tions.