The Reassess Your Chess Workbook | Jeremy Silman

The Reassess Your Chess Workbook – How to Master Chess Imbalances by Jeremy Silman is a comprehensive guide aimed at improving a player's understanding of chess through the concept of imbalances. 

This workbook complements Silman's earlier work, How to Reassess Your Chess, and provides practical exercises designed to test and strengthen your grasp of chess imbalances—an essential strategic framework for evaluating chess positions.

The book includes 131 carefully curated problems covering various game phases, from openings to midgame strategies and endgames. By solving these problems, you can identify your strengths and weaknesses, allowing you to develop a more well-rounded understanding of the game. 

Silman’s approach to imbalances—considering factors like pawn structures, piece activity, space, material, and others—helps players of different levels improve their strategic thinking.

This workbook is ideal if you want to put theory into practice and master the art of positional play through active learning. 

• This book is typically for low-level intermediate, intermediate, and advanced players looking to refine their chess skills
• The workbook consists or 131 carefully crafted problems that cover:
  o    Openings: exploring strategic foundations and critical ideas behind different openings
  o    Middlegames: both tactical and positional challenges that encourage players to think critically about their moves
  o    Endgames: Problems that focus on essential endgame techniques and strategies
• Including an engaging format that will encourage you to analyse positions and develop your thought processes before checking your answers against Silman’s explanations

Reader’s reviews:

This book is one of the top resources available for chess improvement, particularly for players with a rating of 2000 or below. Even without its predecessor, Reassess Your Chess, it is worth every penny. Having played chess for 65 years, I only wish such a book had been around when I started! 

Studying the masters' games, both old and new, has been a helpful tool. Silman breaks things down in a way that makes improvement simple and effective. His approach emphasizes learning through game analysis rather than focusing solely on openings, endgames, or complicated variations that can lead to frustration and burnout.

Silman’s method of self-improvement offers a refreshing alternative to the overwhelming focus on memorizing openings and strategies, often disheartening many players. 

His books are truly inspiring, and after reading them, I’m eager to revisit my favorite chess magazines and issues of Chess, British Chess Magazine, and New in Chess to apply his recommended techniques - T Dennis

Understanding the rules is one thing, but effectively using them in the heat of a complex game is something else entirely. This book closes that gap better than any I've come across. It helps me revisit concepts I've learned over the years, presenting them in ways that are directly applicable in real games under time pressure. 

As someone who's taught intermittently throughout my life, I know that for information to stick, it needs to be practiced repeatedly. This book makes those practice drills engaging and ensures they are enjoyable enough to keep you motivated - B Carnes

About the Author:

Jeremy Silman is an International Master and a world-class teacher, writer, and player who has won the American Open, the National Open, and the U.S. Open. Considered by many to be the game's preeminent instructive writer, he is the author of over thirty-six popular books, including How to Reassess Your Chess (universally accepted as a modern classic), The Amateur's Mind, The Complete Book of Chess Strategy, and The Reassess Your Chess Workbook. Jeremy was also the mastermind of the chess scene in the Harry Potter and the Sourcer’s Stone movie.  

Other details:

Paperback
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 15.3 x 2.8 x 22.8cm
ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 9781890085056