Aagaard: Grandmaster Preparation - Positional Play (paperback) Damen Gambit The blockade of the center

The blockade of the center with the pieces

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The authors don’t promise you a large advantage every time you play their system

true to the motto "prevention is better than cure

Becoming a grandmaster - the dream goal of many young chess talents

Aagaard: Grandmaster Preparation - Positional Play (paperback) Damen Gambit The blockade of the centerHave there been times during a game when you have tried to calculate like mad, but can't find any rhyme or reason to your lines? Have you ever felt that the computer's suggestions in your post mortem analysis make no sense to you? Ever felt like the man with a hammer, suspecting that the world may not be made up entirely of nails after all? In Positional Play Jacob Aagaard shares his simple three step tool of positional analysis that he has used with