Review Monster Plannig

Monster Planning

This book gives us, in each chapter, advice on the topic at hand, even in the introduction, it already gives us on how to evaluate and make a plan in the position.

Each chapter is accompanied by exercises in which you have to choose a plan among three proposed (explained in detail), and each of them is assigned a score by the book to measure our level. In addition, everything is done in a very special way, since it explains the old and new procedure to play these positions.

Without further delay, we'll talk about what each tome is about:

Monster Planning 1

This first volume presents us in a very detailed way:

Pawn concepts:
backward pawns, doubled pawns, isolated pawns, hanging pawns, pawn islands ...
Row and diagonal concepts: open column, outpost ...

In this link you can see a sample of the monster planning book.

Monster Planning 2

The second volume of this work presents us with two major themes:

Concepts about initiative in chess, such as development, sacrifice of quality, security of the king ...
Strategic concepts in chess, such as: the pair of bishops, most pawns, piece changes ...
To have a great explanation about chess piece changes and transformations, I recommend watching IM Asaf Givon's and Aggelos Kesaris's chess course.