Are you struggling with your chess development? While dedicating hours and hours on improving your craft, your rating simply does not want to move upwards? Spending loads of money on chess books and DVDs, but feeling no real improvement at all? No worries - the book that you are holding in your hands might represent a game changer! Years of coaching experience as well as independent research has allowed the author to identify the key skills that will enhance the progress of just about any player rated between 1600 and 2500. Becoming a strong chess thinker is namely not only reserved exclusively for elite players, but actually constitutes the cornerstone of chess training, being no less important than memorizing opening theory, acquiring middlegame knowledge or practicing endgames. By studying this book, you will:- learn how to universally deal with any position you might encounter in your games, even if you happen to see it for the first time in your life, - have the opportunity to solve 90 unique, hand-picked puzzles, extensively annotated and peculiarly organised for the Readers' optimal learning effect, - gain access to more than 300 pages of original grandmaster thoughts and advice, leaving you awestruck and hungry for more afterwards! "Universal Chess Training" ist eine in meinen Augen sehr gelungene Anleitung und Trainingsgrundlage. Das Buch unterstützt den Leser dabei, in seiner Partie das Wissen zur Strategie und zur Taktik konkret qualifiziert einzusetzen. Dabei deckt der Autor die Aufgabenfelder in der Spielführung ab, die am häufigsten über den Ausgang des Spiels entscheiden. Ich kann das Werk jedem Spieler im vom Autor angegebenen Leistungsspektrum ab Elo 1600 und über 2200 hinaus empfehlen. Uwe Bekemann 12.2021