Plan Like a Grandmaster

266 pp. A classic on chess strategies for transitioning from the opening to the midde game. Suetin tackles this important question by carefully selecting 354 games and extracts to illustrate how top masters handle the opening. He also shows how they assess the most significant features of an opening position enabling them to embark on a middlegame plan and pursue it to fruition. Every type of position - closed and open, strategic and tactical, quiet and sharp - is covered, and an index of openings allows the reader to locate positions which feature in their own repertoire.