The Art of Chess A Practical Workbook Oct 06, 2025

The Positional Puzzle Book
That Helps You Find Strong Moves Faster

Strategy is something many players neglect in their training, even though it can dramatically improve your overall strength. Positional understanding often leads to faster, more reliable decisions than brute calculation or even memorization.

While there are plenty of ways to learn about positional decision-making, there aren’t many ways to practice it through puzzles like you can with tactics.

CM Can Kabadayi is here to change that with a positional puzzle workbook that doesn’t just explain principles, but trains you to apply them under real-game conditions.

The workbook is centered around four positional themes that appear in virtually every game:

➡️ Exchanging Pieces
➡️ Awakening Pieces
➡️ Burying Pieces
➡️ Multi-Purpose Moves

With nearly 200 mixed-theme puzzles from real games, you’ll sharpen your intuition to find strong moves faster.

Let’s see where you stand. How would you handle the following positions?

⬆️ Would you exchange queens here with White, or keep them on? A player who understands the connection between king safety and queen activity won’t hesitate in a situation like this one.

⬆️ Earlier in the game, Black played a positional queen sacrifice here. Now you need to find the move that brings a piece to life and enables a powerful attack. Can you see it?

⬆️ How should Black respond to the exchange offer on the e5-knight?

⬆️ White is down an exchange and …Rg8 is coming. It looks grim, but with the right evaluation, you’ll find a multi-purpose move that defends, and prepares a deadly attack at the same time.

How This Workbook Will Help You:

This workbook aims to refine your understanding until choices like the ones above feel natural. CM Can Kabadayi helps you get there with a structured, psychologically grounded method.

The workbook is organized into three clear parts:

1️⃣ Introduction: concise explanations with model positions for each theme
2️⃣ Multiple choice chapter: select between two plans
3️⃣ Three test chapters: mixed puzzles with increasing difficulty