Chess Visualization Course,
Overview

This Chess Visualization Course consists of a series of books and other materials that give you the opportunity to strengthen your chess visualization skills. Just as a weight trainer strengthens his body by exercising his physical muscles, this Course lets you strengthen your vision by exercising your chess visualization muscles. The focus of this entire course is on chess visualization.

This Course offers both a practical and a systematic approach to chess visualization.

It is practical because it allows you to work on your visualization skills using real positions taken from real games. We don't ask you to visualize the color of a particular square or try to figure out how a Knight can hit every square on the board. The positions in these books were taken from real games, most played by masters and grandmasters in tournaments located throughout the world and thus represent practical positions similar to those that can appear in your own games.

It is a systematic because the exercises, chapters, and books typically increase in difficulty from one exercise, chapter, and book to the next, that is, in general the exercises increase in difficulty within each chapter, the chapters increase in difficulty within each book, and the books increases in difficulty over the entire Chess Visualization Course.

We currently envision four books in this Course (see the table below). Books 1 and 2 are now available; Books 3 and 4 are being written. An overview of each book appears in the table below. More specific information on each book can be found in the left-hand column of this web page. These books can be purchased using the information provided on the right-hand column of each web page.

Title	Date	Exercises	Length
Book 1: General Tactics	7/07	800	5-11+
Book 2: Kingside Sacrifices     and Combinations (with     Preparatory Positions)	12/10	880	7-13+
Book 3: Broadening Your     Visualization Skills*	TBD	TBD	TBD
Book 4: Adding Depth and     Breadth*	TBD	TBD	TBD

About the Table: Title refers to the titles of the books. The titles of Books 3 and 4 are tentative. Date is the date of publication. Exercises refers to the number of visualization exercises in each book. Length refers to the number of half-moves (ply) that you are asked to visualize. Thus Book 1 was published in July, 2007 and contains 800 exercises, most of which run from 5 to 11 ply; about 100 of the exercises in Book 1 are 12 ply or longer. Book 2 was published in December, 2010 and contains 880 exercises, most of which run from 7 to 13 ply; more than 250 exercises in Book 2 are 14 ply or longer. TBD means "to be determined".

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