Surprise yourself and reach higher!This book is based on real amateur games and shows you how
an average club player can proceed through the ranks and reach Candidate Master level. It's a
hard struggle nothing comes for free and your path will be strewn with setbacks and
disappointments. Just like in real life.Alex Dunne guides you in the more than 50 games that
you will be playing' and offers lots of practical straightforward and effective advice. Slowly
but surely you will improve in all phases of the game: the opening the middlegame and the
endgame. Dunne explains when and how to activate your pieces and how to recognize and punish
the errors your opponents are bound to make.At the end of the book having absorbed these
lessons your experience technique and confidence will have improved in such a way that your
first win against a master will not come as a big surprise.Alex Dunne is an American FIDE
Master ICCF Correspondence Chess Master and author of more than a dozen chess books. He lives
in Sayre Pennsylvania.This is a revised improved and extended edition of the 1985 classic.
