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2014-01-27ChessCafe Book of the Year!
Pump Up Your Rating was voted as the ChessCafe Book of the Year 2014!
I am very happy that many like the book and took their time to vote. Thanks!
I have been in writing mood the last weeks, completely neglecting reality and it's duties. Last night I wrote until 08.20, slept two hours and started again.
Now I am finally here again, but it feels like I have left another reality which is at least as real.
I have written in Swedish, so it's not the sequel one reader suggested: "Pump Up Your Rating even if you have a full-time job and have to struggle with untalented German students".
At last a promise: there will appear an interview within a week or so.
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PUMP UP YOUR RATING
Any man in the street knows how to increase his physical strength, but among most chess players confusion reigns when it comes to improving their playing strength. Axel Smith's training methods have guided his friends, teammates and pupils to grandmaster norms and titles. Hard work will be required, but Axel Smith knows how you can Pump Up Your Rating.
Every area of chess is covered - opening preparation, through middlegame play, to endgame technique. Smith delves into both the technical and psychological sides of chess, and shows how best to practise and improve.
International Master Axel Smith from Sweden has had great success as a coach. Using his methods on himself, in the space of two years he boosted his rating from 2093 to 2458. He is now closing in on the Grandmaster title
ISBN: 978-1-907982-73-6 - Released September 2013
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