How to Win at Chess, Next Level
GothamChess writes the intermediate book: plans, pawns, and the rating band after the basics.
A teaching book for players who already know the moves.
Penguin Random House aims How to Win at Chess, Next Level at players who have left the beginner book behind.
An editorial introduction to the book, its premise and the story surrounding it.
The sequel is for the band where games stop being decided by hanging pieces alone.
Penguin describes the book as a guide for midlevel players, about 1000 to 1600 Elo. The listed subjects are pawn play, piece play, tactics, attack, defense, converting a winning position, endgames, and making a plan. It also discusses engines, game analysis, bots, and training puzzles.
A teacher with a camera, now on paper
Rozman’s public teaching life is the GothamChess channel. The book is the intermediate volume in a How to Win at Chess line, with more than 500 gameplay illustrations in the publisher’s count. The promise is practical rather than historical: how to choose a plan when the opening theory runs out.
What it is not
The copy nods at friends and even at grandmaster ambitions. The stated audience is narrower. It is a workbook for players who already know the rules and want the next layer.
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About the book.
The publisher lists Levy Rozman, known as GothamChess, as an International Master since 2018, and describes more than 500 instructional diagrams plus Chessly bonus material.
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