Improve Your Chess at Any Age
By Andres D. Hortillosa
www.USMilitaryChess.org
Contents
Bibliography 4
Acknowledgments 7
Introduction 9
1 My First Breakthrough Year 14
2 2008: The Birth of the Chess Thinking Process 31
3 New England Masters 69
4 Pan-American Continental Championship 129
5 Mid-America Open 137
6 North American FIDE Invitational 144
Conclusion 168
Index of Openings 170
Index of Games 171
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Thanks for posting this.
The problem with the book is that the writer does not make a convincing case that his methods work. Hortillosa’s results are not improving. His rating has steadily gone down since his first FIDE rated tournament, and his USCF rating did the same
not to be too contentious – but the way the author achieved his strong rating /is/ by the methods in the book — which btw, are well presented and also acknowledged by strong players as a /necessary/ method in transiting from say 1800 to 2200. Phil Innes
This book has an interesting and appealing title and nice cover but it is just a collection of this players games, with some of his thoughts on chess.
The Title “Improve your chess at any age” is misleading. This is not a book that is helpful for improving your chess or anything about improving your chess, its a collection of this player games.
Most damning to this book is the author own improvement eg his offical fide progress chart :- http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?event=2038749
This shows a constant big rating drop over time, NO IMPROVEMENT, including a recent tournament in July where he score 1.5 out of 6 games against players below 2000
His current USCF rating :- http://main.uschess.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,181/
USCF rating currently 2005, and his rapid was as low as 1716 in 2009