How to Become a Candidate Master

A Practical Guide to Take Your Chess to the Next Level

Alex Dunne

• Publisher: New in Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9789056919221
• Year: 2020

This book is based on real amateur games and shows you how an average club player can proceed through the ranks and reach master level. It is a hard struggle, nothing comes for free and your path will be strewn with set-backs and disappointments. Just like 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. After all, you will have reached master level yourself! This is an improved and extended edition of the 1992 classic, published under the same title.

Table of contents

• Dedication Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: You – 1907
• Chapter 2: 1801 – You
• Chapter 3: 1987 – You
• Chapter 4: 1818 – You
• Chapter 5: 1836 – You
• Chapter 6: You – 1807
• Chapter 7: 1847 – You
• Chapter 8: You – 1927
• Chapter 9: You – 1845
• Chapter 10: You – 1863
• Chapter 11: 1885 – You
• Chapter 12: 1844 – You
• Chapter 13: You – 1844
• Chapter 14: 1852 – You
• Chapter 15: You – 1810
• Chapter 16: 1807 – You
• Chapter 17: You – 1883
• Chapter 18: You – 1833
• Chapter 19: 1887 – You
• Chapter 20: You – 1852
• Chapter 21: 1994 – You
• Chapter 22: 1849 – You
• Chapter 23: You – 1804
• Chapter 24: 1810 – You
• Chapter 25: 1816 – You
• Chapter 26: 1819 – You
• Chapter 27: 1849 – You
• Chapter 28: 1803 – You
• Chapter 29: 1875 – You
• Chapter 30: You – 1863
• Chapter 31: You – 1807
• Chapter 32: You – 1836
• Chapter 33: You – 1842
• Chapter 34: 1878 – You
• Chapter 35: 1901 – You
• Chapter 36: 1862 – You
• Chapter 37: You – 1802
• Chapter 38: You – 1848
• Chapter 39: 1810 – You
• Chapter 40: You – 1839
• Chapter 41: 1816 – You
• Chapter 42: 1939 – You
• Chapter 43: You – 1997
• Chapter 44: 1984 – You
• Chapter 45: 1997 – You
• Chapter 46: 1878 – You
• Chapter 47: 1740 – You
• Chapter 48: You – 1623
• Chapter 49: 2000 – You
• Chapter 50: 2030 – You
• Chapter 51: You – 2370
• Chapter 52: You – 2383
• Epilogue
• Explanation of symbols