A Guide To Chess Improvement by Mitchell Heisman

A concise, practical manual for serious players that teaches how to diagnose personal weaknesses and build a systematic training plan. It stresses concrete methods — analyzing your own games, targeted tactics and endgame work, improving calculation and pattern recognition, and using realistic practice routines and benchmarks — while warning against rote opening memorization and addressing psychological factors like discipline, time control, and handling losses. The text combines theory, exercises and annotated examples to guide steady, measurable improvement.