Chess Analytics: Training With A Grandmaster (2012)

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Code:  2062-SP- Chess Analytics: Training With A Grandmaster (2012)

Efstratios Grivas is a Greek grandmaster probably best known nowadays for three things. First, he has with some justification named a variation of the Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6) after himself. Second, he has made a name for himself as a writer of training materials, and this book is best considered as another entry in that genre. And third, alas, he has recently walked into a plagiarism scandal, and that brings us to the book at hand.

The book is a loose collection of 45 lessons in three sections. There are 24 lessons on the middlegame, 15 on the endgame, and six miscellaneous pieces to close out the book. Each lesson begins with a discussion under the heading "concept", proceeds with a number of well-chosen, well-analyzed examples, and finishes with a short summary of the lessons learned ("conclusion").

The book's general level is pretty high - I'd say it's best suited to players over 2000, though as always ambitious players a little below that could work with it as well. I also think that in terms of format, it's more suited for trainers than those wishing to be trained, but that shouldn't stop those who are interested. It's not a book on the level of work by Dvoretsky, Aagaard, Mueller or Yusupov, but it has merit and I wouldn't try to dissuade interested players from picking it up.