Dan Heisman's Improve Your Chess
An Overview of 'Planning'

National Master Dan Heisman is a name that is synonymous with excellence in chess coaching and teaching. Dan authors the award-winning Novice Nook column (winner of three Chess Journalists of America "Best Instruction" awards), aimed at improving adults, for chesscafe.com that are clearly written and offer very practical advice and tips on how to improve your game. More info about Dan can be found here. In the new Improve Your Chess series, Dan provides instruction by reviewing amateur games played on ICC and showing where the players went wrong and how to improve.

Today's show: While I have made several other videos addressing the general idea of "Planning", this is the first one with that word in the title! Looks at some of the major, but general, issues involved when there are no tactics and one side is trying to figure out what to do.

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