Look Ahead! Bundle (5 Books)
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This is a bundle containing all 5 books in FM Bill Jordan’s Look Ahead! series.
The Look Ahead! books have been expertly crafted to enhance your visualisation skills, making the process of seeing ahead as easy as possible.
The Look Ahead! series uses variations which culminate in checkmate, requiring you to correctly visualise if a potential position is mate. For instance, you wouldn’t want to sacrifice your Queen only to discover that there is an escape from what you thought was a checkmate. In each position, visualise the final mate before playing your move or moves.
In the first chapter of mate in 1 puzzles in each book your aim is to find the mating move. When you have found a move, it is recommended that you carefully visualise the consequences of that move. The same puzzles are repeated in each chapter, but one move deeper each time. Having familiarized yourself with the variations in earlier chapters should make solving the longer sequences more manageable. By visualizing the sequence of moves to be played and the ultimate board position, you will significantly enhance your chess visual memory. With practice, you will get faster and faster at seeing ahead, and find yourself blitzing out mates in your games. Each book uses a different set of positions to compromise the set of mates used in the book.
Each book in the series starts with mate in 1’s, with the first book leading the reader through visualising up to 4 move mates. Each subsequent book increases the maximum mate length by one, going from mate in 4s in the first book, to mate in 8s in the 5th book.
The five books included in the bundle are:
- Look Ahead! - Book 1
- Look Ahead! - Book 2
- Look Ahead! - Book 3
- Look Ahead! - Book 4
- Look Ahead! - Book 5
Those who purchase the e-book can read through the book in reading mode, move through the material in interactive study mode, or drill the material via several methods, including spaced repetition or by looping through the material multiple times until mastered. The spaced repetition and looping sets are available to all members who have purchased the book, and do not require a premium membership.