Best of British by GM Simon Williams

Inspire Your Chess with Brilliancies from the British Masterminds

You hear it from every chess coach out there: if you really want to improve your chess, you’d better study master games. And while you can certainly look to the great Soviet classics to hone your skills, if you really want to learn creative, attacking chess, you’d better learn from the British!

Grandmaster Simon Williams and International Master Richard Palliser are teaming up again to continue their lifelong mission: showing you how to play the rowdiest, most combative moves to spice up your game and pile up the points. And this time, they’re joined by some of the finest chess minds in the UK to do it!

In this course, you’ll learn how some of the strongest players in British history used incredibly inventive techniques to topple seriously tough opponents.

You’ll see England’s first grandmaster, Tony Miles, produce a stunning victory with the black pieces over Anatoly Karpov with 1…a6. You’ll see former World Championship contender Nigel Short march his king up the board in a crowded middlegame to help deliver checkmate. And you’ll see Matthew Sadler emerge from a decade-long retirement to win a major tournament with an electric game in the Semi-Slav.

The detailed annotations of GM Williams and IM Palliser are immensely instructive. You’ll learn why each of these extraordinary Englishmen made their moves – and why they didn’t make others – helping you understand the grandmaster thought process. And with plenty of puzzles to expand your calculation skills, you might just get an idea or two for your own games.

But best of all, by upgrading to video, you’ll get these British legends walking you through their own work! That’s right, Michael “Mickey” Adams, Nigel Short, Matthew Sadler and Jon Speelman are joining the Ginger GM to explain what exactly they were thinking in each game, teaching you the finer points of devising a winning attack. And knowing GM Williams, you are sure to be educated and entertained!

If you want to learn inventive, attacking chess, learn from the Best of British!