Many Club Players think that studying chess is all about cramming as much information in their brain as they can.
In 2019 Giddins published, together with Gerard Welling , the highly successful chess opening guide \'Side-Stepping Mainline Theory\' (ISBN 9789056918699)..
He compiled and edited \'The New In Chess Book of Chess Improvement\', the bestselling anthology of master classes from New In Chess magazine.
Steve Giddins is a FIDE Master from England, and a highly experienced chess writer and journalist.
In 2019 Welling published, together with Steve Giddins, the highly successful chess opening guide \'Side-Stepping Mainline Theory\' (ISBN 9789056918699).
He has contributed to NIC Yearbook and Kaissiber, the freethinker\'s magazine on chess openings.
About author(s): Gerard Welling is an International Master and an experienced chess trainer from the Netherlands.
After working with it, post-beginners will dramatically boost their skills - without carrying the excess baggage that many of their opponents will be struggling with.
The Lasker Method to Improve in Chess is an efficient toolkit as well as an entertaining guide.
Welling and Giddins explain the principles with very carefully selected examples, some of them from Lasker\'s own games.
It enables every post-beginner to play trustworthy openings, reach a sound middlegame and have a basic grasp of endgame technique.
Gerard Welling and Steve Giddins have created a complete but compact Manual based on Lasker\'s general approach to chess.
Lasker himself, for that matter, also studied chess considerably less than his contemporary rivals.
Superfluous knowledge is often a pitfall.
Chess instruction needs to be efficient because of the limited amount of time that amateur Players have available.
Amateurs shouldn\'t waste energy on rote learning but just strive for a good grasp of the basic essentials of endgame play, strategy, openings, tactics and defence.
Emanuel Lasker, the second and longest reigning World Chess Champion (27 years!), understood that what a Club player needs most of all is common sense: understanding a set of timeless principles.
As a result, amateur Players are spending way too much time worrying about subtitles that are really only relevant for grandmasters.
Most textbooks support that notion by stressing the importance of always trying to find the objectively best move.
Many Club Players think that studying chess is all about cramming as much information in their brain as they can
