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

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 three books in this series (see the table below). Only Book 1: General Tactics is available at this time. Book 2: Attack on the King will probably be available in the latter part of 2010. 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	5-11+
Book 2: Attack on the King	?/10	800+	5-15+
Book 3: Broadening Your Visualization Skills	TBD	TBD	TBD

Book 1: General Tactics gives you the opportunity to practice visualizing variations that run up to 11 ply (6 moves for White, 5 moves for Black) and beyond. Book 2: Attack on the King gives you the opportunity to practice visualizing longer variations that run up to 15 ply (8 moves for White, 7 moves for Black) and beyond. Book 3: Broadening Your Visualization Skills gives you the opportunity to practice visualizing variations that contain two, three, or more main lines of analysis.

Thus Book 1 establishes a baseline depth of up to 11 ply (6 moves). Book 2 goes deeper with exercises that run up to 15 ply (8 moves) and beyond. And Book 3 goes broader with exercises that contain two, three, or more main lines of analysis.

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 11 ply, although 98 of the 800 exercises are 12 ply or longer (the longest being 39 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.

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