Tournament Battleplan - Daniel Gormally

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Résumé :
Given the changes inthe chess world over the last few years I feel that we badly need an update of how to prepare and out-prepare?your opponent during a chess tournament. The pandemic giving rise to vastly underrated junior and amateur players. Online chess taking a much more prominent role. Accusations of cheating makingthe headlines. Social media being used as a tool to educate the chess masses. All these have lead to a different landscape, but some things stay the same. The player who is willing to analyse and work on chess harder than the restwill still separate his or herself from their peers. In my view, at least 90percent of success in tournament play will come down to how good yourcalculation and analysis is. Because that is the bread and butter of tournamentplay. This is what I will try to get across in this book, that a chess playerwill often stand or fall on the quality of analysis and I will discuss the positiveand negative role that working with computers has on a players overallstrength. I will also try to explain why my chess fell into a torpor because ofan over reliance on computers and how I have recently come to realize thattechnical deficiencies have often held me back from reaching the higher echelonsof the game. And in doing so, and looking at the chess world and trying toexplain it from my point of view while following my own progress and that ofothers I will try to put together a tournament battle plan

Biographie:
Grandmaster Daniel Gormally is currently living in Alnwick, Northumberland, England.

Daniel has been a chess professional for over twenty years, in which time he has played in many tournaments both in the U.K. and abroad. He has represented England in the European team championships and the Olympiad. Daniel has taken high placing in the British chess championships and on several occasions has placed in a tie for second. He is also the two times winner of the English rapid play championships.

In 2005 he scored his final Grandmaster norm in a tournament in Gibraltar, where he scored a 2693 performance. In that tournament he played against several world-class grandmasters, including Nakamura, Aronian, Sutovsky and Dreev, and only lost one game.

 He is also the author of several well-received chess books, including a year in the chess world and mating the castled king, one of the few western chess books in recent years to be translated into Chinese.

As an author he is known for his laid-back and humorous style, this is his third book for Thinkers Publishing.