Dr Alan Bester is back with the second volume of Reversing Mate - World Champions Edition which uses his "reversing method".
Volume 2 brings you another 800 mating patterns (totalling 3200 training variations) to study game-winning checkmates.When you see a good move, look for a better one. - Emanuel Lasker
This course continues from the GM Alex Colovic endorsed
Reversing Mate - World Champions Edition Vol. 1 which has been a roaring success.
The Method
Dr Bester's method first requires you to solve the final move position, a mate-in-1. Once solved, you immediately need to solve the position again, but from a few moves back.
The mate-in-1 positions can themselves be quite tricky, but once solved will help you find that same position from a few moves back.
The concept is that once you identify the final mating pattern you can work towards setting it up in the preceding moves The Test Positions chapters repeat all the positions but without the preceding mate-in-1 variation.
540 patterns are from the games of players who have held the World Champion title (including some games in which the champion was checkmated!). The balance of
260 patterns, and to keep with the world championship theme, are from the games of players who were world chess championship challengers. A
full database of games is included.
About the Author
Dr Alan Bester (PhD) resides on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast of South Africa. Alan is passionate about chess and while playing league chess in the mid-1990s was invited to give chess lessons to a group of scholars in the local school. The Chessable platform has enabled him to now share his chess learning experiences with a wider and an international community.
Alan is the author of the highly rated The Unexpected Mate, The Reversing Mate Series, The Forwarding and Reversing series, the Moves Ahead series, and the free On the Attack series which have together attracted thousands of students.
As Chessable staff, we'd also like to remind you that the high quality of Dr Bester's chess work has led to endorsements from leading coaches and players such as GM Alex Colovic.
