Chess Tips for the Improving Player gives practical advice for club players who want to take the next step towards chess mastery. Amatzia Avni's approach is far more creative than the usual tips such as ''develop your pieces'' and ''control the centre''. Avni is a trained psychologist who looks at life from an unusual angle. Instead of repeating platitudes seen before in countless books, he scrutinized a huge number of chess positions, asking himself ''What can be learned from them?'' The reader can now benefit from Avni's painstaking efforts.

About the author: Amatzia Avni is an Israeli psychologist who is a FIDE Master of both playing and puzzle composition. He has written several original and critically acclaimed books. This is his first book for Quality Chess.