Chess Visualization Course - training exercises for tactics and attack on the King to improve your chess!

This Chess Visualization Course consists of a series of books designed to help you improve your chess visualization skills. All of the exercises in the books are taken from real games, most of which were played by international masters and grandmasters in tournaments located throughout the world.

The focus of this course is specifically on chess visualization. Just as a weight trainer improves his body by isolating one particular muscle group at a time, this Chess Visualization Course is designed to improve your chess by emphasizing your chess visualization muscles.

We currently envision four books in this series (see the table below). Only Book 1: General Tactics is available at this time. If you would like to be notified when Book 2 becomes available, please email us at info@chessvisualization.com.

Title	Date	Exercises	Length
Book 1: General Tactics	7/07	800	5-12
Book 2: Attack on the King	TBD	TBD	TBD
Book 3: Visualizing the Endings	TBD	TBD	TBD
Book 4: Deep Visualization	TBD	TBD	TBD

About the table: Date is the date of publication. Exercises refers to the number of exercises in each publication. Length refers to the number of half-moves (ply) that you are asked to visualize. Book 1 was published in July, 2007 and contains 800 exercises, most of which run from 5 to 12 ply. "TBD" means "to be determined".

Layout of this website:

The links on the left provide information about the Chess Visualization Course and include a list of 10 great features about the book (see the Introduction), FIDE Master Paul Whitehead's thoughts on how he improved his chess (see the Foreword), a table of contents, a detailed description of the book, 24 sample exercises taken from the book, and some comments we have received from various people regarding the Chess Visualization Course.

The links on the right include purchase information as well as information about the author, including a separate description of how it all began, a sign-up sheet if you would like to be notified when new visualization materials becomes available, some links, and our contact information.

Click the "Next" button below to read the introduction to Book 1.