Excelling at Chess

Brought together in one volume are two of Jacob Aagaard's great books— Excelling at Technical Chess and Excelling at Positional Chess. "And the rest is a matter of technique" is an annoyingly common phrase used in chess literature. The implication from the author is that the task of converting a typically winning position into a full point or converting a drawing position into half—a—point is relatively straightforward. However, as all of us practical players realise, it's not always a simp...