![]() But I soon realized that despite the excellent study advice in the book, much of the game analysis was way over my head. At first, I was following each of the games with my travel chess set at home and then using my iPad on my breaks at work. There are 71 annotated games and fragments scattered across How to Study Chess on Your Own. It’s practical, sensible, and is flexible enough to where anyone from a lower-rated D-class player up to a Grandmaster could use it. Overall, I’d say that the advice in this book is a welcome addition to the growing library of chess improvement materials out there. Instead, the advice is more practical and nuanced such as “I have 4 hours to study chess today, so 2 hours for openings, 1 hour for endgame, and 1 hour on tactics”. Not in the sense of “I want to be an IM in 5 years”. I study and play chess a lot, but I realized that I didn’t have a solid plan of what I wanted to achieve and what steps I was going to take to achieve it. This is a step that countless chess students (including myself) tend to ignore. Of particular interest to me was his advice for creating a study plan. Instead, he digs down and shows how the variety of tools at a chess player’s disposal these days can be used for a multitude of improvement opportunities. There’s very little “theory” involved in the advice he gives. The study options presented are very down-to-earth and application-driven. The study advice offered by GM Kuljasevic throughout the book is interlaced with a variety of Grandmaster and student games that are used to illustrate the various principles explained in each chapter. The Study Adviceįor the purposes of this review, I am going to divide the book into two sections: The Study Advice and The Games. ![]() So, I put away all the other chess books and projects I was working on and focused solely on How to Study exclusively for the next few weeks. I wanted something that might help me understand why my improvement was so stagnant. I play correspondence games regularly, read and follow games in books/magazines, and play a lot against my DGT Centaur chess computer. Which, if you’ve never listened, you’re missing out! The title alone drew me to it because I tend to be an isolated chess player. I learned about this book from the Perpetual Chess podcast. This is the honest review of a < 1200 ELO player. That’s why I was very excited to read GM Davorin Kuljasevic’s new book How to Study Chess on Your Own. That’s one reason that I’m always on the lookout for new materials and new ideas to help me improve my game. Well, I guess you could say that I haven’t made the progress that I expected after devoting so much time to reading, studying, and playing. I’ve been playing chess regularly since 2014 and have made (in my opinion) minimal progress.
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