Benjamin: American Grandmaster improvers players will dramatically boost their

players will dramatically boost their skills – without carrying the excess baggage that many of their opponents will be struggling with

Both these players have frequently set very difficult problems for their elite opponents with these complex systems

Viktor Kortchnoi and many others

He compiled and edited The New In Chess Book of Chess Improvement

as well as endgame problems and exercises where the reader must decide how to bring an attack to a crowning conclusion

Benjamin: American Grandmaster improvers players will dramatically boost theirJoel Benjamin is one of the most prominent faces in the history of US chess. At thirteen years of age he broke Bobby Fischer's record as the youngest ever national master, and this was followed by countless tournament successes. Perhaps most famously, in 1997 he hit the headlines when he became the chess consultant for IBM's Deep Blue computer, which made history by beating World Champion Garry Kasparov in an epic encounter. In American Grandmaster,