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Gerard Welling
Books by Gerard Welling
The Lasker Method to Improve in Chess
A Manual for Modern-Day Club Players
By Gerard Welling and Steve Giddins
The Lasker Method to Improve in Chess is an efficient toolkit as well as an entertaining guide. After working with it, players will dramatically boost their skills, without carrying the excess baggage that many of their opponents will be struggling with.
Side-stepping Mainline Theory
Cut Down on Chess Opening Study and Get a Middlegame You are Familiar With
By Gerard Welling and Steve Giddins
The average chess player spends too much time on studying opening theory. In his day, World Champion Emanuel Lasker argued that improving amateurs should spend about 5% of their study time on openings. These days club players are probably closer to 80%, often focusing on opening lines that are po...