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title: "The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery"
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# The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery

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Review: Amateur’s Mind:Brilliant if rather bulky & heavy. - A good “walkthrough” between chess student and master on how students think and the Master pointing out how to correct fallacious reasoning or blind spots in the approach to play that sub 800 Elo players have. The book itself is crisply printed with clear diagrams, although it could be smyth sewn binding so it could be laid flat better. The book assumes in presentation that you will have a board in front of you to go through the conversation between student and master, and this does help enormously. Readers will find this book a struggle without having this. Also a pencil to annotate in the margins will help you
Review: good book - i got this book about 4 years ago when started up playing chess again. i read the book but could not understand most of it. so i carried on buying books on chess hoping to get better. then i picked the book up again and read over the chapters again and again then i started to understand the game more.the book as made me a much better player and think its a good buy.the idear of the book for me was reading it 3 times to get a good idear of how a amateur and master thinks.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 1890085022 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 101,044 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 107 in Chess (Books) 260 in Indoor Games |
| Customer reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (673) |
| Dimensions  | 15.24 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm |
| Edition  | 2nd Expanded ed. |
| ISBN-10  | 9781890085025 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1890085025 |
| Item weight  | 726 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 443 pages |
| Publication date  | 1 Oct. 1999 |
| Publisher  | Siles Press (US) |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amateur’s Mind:Brilliant if rather bulky & heavy.
*by K***N on 17 December 2019*

A good “walkthrough” between chess student and master on how students think and the Master pointing out how to correct fallacious reasoning or blind spots in the approach to play that sub 800 Elo players have. The book itself is crisply printed with clear diagrams, although it could be smyth sewn binding so it could be laid flat better. The book assumes in presentation that you will have a board in front of you to go through the conversation between student and master, and this does help enormously. Readers will find this book a struggle without having this. Also a pencil to annotate in the margins will help you

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ good book
*by K***G on 3 February 2013*

i got this book about 4 years ago when started up playing chess again. i read the book but could not understand most of it. so i carried on buying books on chess hoping to get better. then i picked the book up again and read over the chapters again and again then i started to understand the game more.the book as made me a much better player and think its a good buy.the idear of the book for me was reading it 3 times to get a good idear of how a amateur and master thinks.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book
*by T***T on 16 November 2023*

Great book for beginners intermediate players

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery
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- Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master

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