Strategic Chess Exercises: Find the Right Way to Outplay Your Opponent

This Strategic Chess Exercises: Find the Right Way to Outplay Your Opponent is a chess training book built around strategic exercises for players who want to understand positions more clearly and choose the right plan when there is no direct tactical solution.

Unlike many puzzle books that focus mainly on tactics, this one concentrates on the practical decisions that shape real games: improving piece placement, limiting your opponent’s counterplay and building an advantage step by step. Emmanuel Bricard, an experienced trainer and International Grandmaster, has selected and checked positions that are designed to develop strategic thinking in concrete situations.

What this book covers

This is a practical exercise book that helps you learn how to find a good plan. Instead of calculating long variations in every position, you train yourself to recognise the key strategic factors and make better decisions at the board. That kind of work also helps you use your time more efficiently on the clock.

• shows what to do when there is no direct tactical answer,
• helps you understand chess strategy more clearly,
• teaches strategic principles in real positions,
• supports quicker plan selection with less unnecessary calculation,
• shows how to build an advantage gradually in different types of positions,
• uses carefully chosen examples of strategic play.

Training scope

The exercises vary in difficulty, so the book is suitable for a wide range of club players. Most of the material is based on middlegame positions, but there is also an extensive section of endgame tests. That gives you the chance to practise planning in the middlegame as well as strategic decision-making in the endgame.

Regular work with this book helps you read the position more quickly, choose a better direction for play and handle games where the result is decided not by one tactical blow, but by a deeper understanding of chess.

About the author

Emmanuel Bricard is an International Grandmaster, a former French champion and a chess trainer with more than fifteen years of experience. This is a training-focused publication based on practical coaching work, making it a strong choice for ambitious club players.

Key details

• Product type: chess training book
• Content type: strategic chess exercises
• Author: Emmanuel Bricard
• Author title: International Grandmaster
• Training focus: positional understanding and choosing the right plan
• Game phase: mainly middlegame, with an extensive endgame test section
• Target level: club players