1. The series consists of 10 books. They added a "Revision & Exam" book to the orange series. 2. The order of the books is listed at the end of the book. 1. Build up, 1. Boost, 1. Evolution, 2. Build up, 2. Boost, 2. Evolution, 3. Build, 3. Boost, 3. Evolution. I'm going to guess that 1. Revision & Exam should probably be the last in the series, but I'm not sure. 3. From reading the introduction, I don't think you're supposed to simply read the examples. It states, "First think about every diagram position (for at least 5 minutes) and try the solutions on your own". At first, I thought he was referring to the exam questions, but the next paragraph explains, "The second part of the lesson is a test with 12 positions." So clearly, each lesson will take a lot of effort. The author warns, "On average, you will need 1 to 2 hours per lesson." 4. I've read elsewhere that the rating band recommendations are probably overly optimistic. I'll need to start with the first book! 5. Thank you for your insights!
@q5grQCiooVyTzx9
Жыл бұрын
1. Revision & Exam should go after the first three books. He didn't write "Revision & Exam" for the other two levels.
@zonykel
Жыл бұрын
I also recall that Yusupov did not want his books on chessable, that's why you see only 2 of the books from the series there. However, chess tempo has 4 of the books available. I'm not 100% sure of the reason for Yusupov's resistance to the electronic versions of his books. I'm guessing he would like people to actually set up the pieces on a board.
@KeepChessSimple
Жыл бұрын
@@zonykel I think that's more a thing between Quality Chess and Chessable. I don't ever see any Quality Chess books om Chessable anymore. Don't think Yusupov himself has anything to do with that..
@zonykel
Жыл бұрын
@@KeepChessSimple I've read Jacob Aagaard's comments. It was a Yusupov decision. Yusupov owns the rights. I'm not sure why the lineup of Yusupov's book is greater at chess tempo (4 books) vs. chessable (2 books).
@b.1565
Жыл бұрын
@@Dimprecator 4 of his books shortly have been published on chesstempo. No panic because of the engine there...
@koalanefelibato4365
Жыл бұрын
As a 1600 who has read the first two orange books, hearing that they are meant for under 1500 came as a surprise. Damn did Yusupov expect a lot from his students
@koalanefelibato4365
Жыл бұрын
Also, a couple of downsides for me: there are no digital versions, and only the orange ones are translated into spanish
@simonhinkel4086
Жыл бұрын
Well, you can definetly See, he is a deciple of Dvoretzky 😬😬😄 super tough puzzles
@gbharrisiv
Жыл бұрын
@@koalanefelibato4365 Chess tempo has digital versions, though not in Spanish.
@RaabStephan
Жыл бұрын
@@koalanefelibato4365 They are on chessable, though not sure if in Spanish
@rainerausdemspring894
Жыл бұрын
I have noticed that the exercises in the "Übungsbuch" (Book of exercises) are much harder than those in the corresponding Volume.
@Hyfse
Жыл бұрын
Worked through 8 of the books, took me from 1900 blitz lichess to roughly 2300 lichess blitz in a 9 month period. Sadly that was 2 years ago and now I am too busy :( Otherwise always great to have a channel focusing on improvement with great advice!
@alboresivn7012
Жыл бұрын
cómo los estudiabas? además de leer los libros que otros ejercicios hacias??
@KeepChessSimple
Жыл бұрын
There was also quite a lot of discussion on the Quality Chess forums about the difficulty. Yusupov admitted in a Q&A that he might be a bit optimistic here and it's hard for him to know how below 1500 players think. I believe the general consensus is that you should be at least 1500 for the Orange ones.
@thorsthunder2670
Жыл бұрын
The interesting thing about these books is that there are many reviews from improvers of book 1. Based on either the whole first book or a few chapters. Almost all of these reviews are very positive and they gush praise about the book. And yet there are amost no reviews involving even the second book, let alone the whole series. This tells me that while this series is undoubtedly great. It is really hard work. If you're planning on giving it a go buy them one at a time.
@ChessCoachAndras
Жыл бұрын
Interesting take and I tend to agree!
@Diffusion8
Жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more!
@DrSuage
Жыл бұрын
@@Diffusion8 I have just finished book 3. I had several significant (year long) gaps due to fatigue...
@alvinalcala6104
Жыл бұрын
If you want structured learning without shortcuts and pure hard work then the yusupov book series is the best. Topics are also not boring and full of sample & test exercises. A must have for every developing chess player!
@adammcallister5047
Жыл бұрын
Finally! Been waiting for this review :) thanks for the great work!
@NickVisel
Жыл бұрын
a friend gifted me one of these books and after this review I think I'm going to start it soon! Thanks Andras!
@dustingibson2591
Жыл бұрын
Awesome! Andras, you’re becoming one of my favorite coaches! Thanks for everything you do!
@lukastux3024
Жыл бұрын
Your excitement is contagious
@rumpelRAINS
Жыл бұрын
Love the reviews!
@gtjons2880
Жыл бұрын
Seems like it’s worth it’s weight in gold and would have been in your previous video. Follows your preference of encompassing all phases of the game - going to try and jump on it. Thanks again !
@rainerausdemspring894
Жыл бұрын
German (speaking) readers note: This is the English translation if the German original "Tigersprung" series. The books are really good and studying them is definitely hard work. I gave up playing in a club 40 years ago - lack of time - and came back to chess 2 years ago. I soon noticed that the 1800 ELO books get difficult soon. The tactic problems were no real problem for me. But the strategic/positional problems... I don't know the English translations. However, the German version is the original. So, if you are German or have no problem with German chess books...
@Zeddicus1976
Жыл бұрын
I do own them. Unfortunately I started with the last series, as my dwz at that point was 2000. But the examples are quite difficult, even in the first series. Some are directly taken from Endgame Manual. I remember a fun story told by Adhiban. One day he saw the book at his mother's shelf and he thought he will solve them on the fly, because it's only for 1800 players. He said he couldn't believe that's 1800 stuff, as it wasn't a walk in the park even for a player of his caliber😅The series helped me to boost my calculation skills quite a lot.
@m42orion12
Жыл бұрын
Just ordered the first 3 books (Circle,square,triangle) from amazon...Be here tomorrow,can't wait.
@Silvermist78
29 күн бұрын
Star class review on the excellent series of books! Thank you 💪
@michaelf8221
Жыл бұрын
I can confirm that the rating range reported for the books should be a bit higher. I'd propose 1200-1700 for books 1, 1700-2000 for books 2, and 2000-2200 for books 3. I've gone through approximately 4 of these books, and they're fantastic.
@ryans9094
Жыл бұрын
You talking about online ratings or FIDE rating?
@michaelf8221
Жыл бұрын
@@ryans9094 OTB
@christianmasseus1108
Жыл бұрын
What rating increases did you realize
@rainerausdemspring894
Жыл бұрын
Regarding the sequence of the books: The German version has volume numbers for each level (1500, 10800, 2100): Volume I, Volume II and "Übungsbuch" (Exercises).
@frednimzowi9852
Жыл бұрын
Well, I have to disagree with Andras here. I'm not a big fan of those books, not that they are particularly bad, not at all, quite the contrary even, but the books are in general difficult, too difficult for their target audience. It's quite interesting that Andras had difficulties to know/judge which number 1 book should be read first. There are 9 books based on level of play/difficulty, so 3×3. Even more confusing is that you are supposed to read all the 1 books first, and only then go to the number 2 and 3 ones, respectively, as opposed to the imo more logical 1,2,3 booster your chess, then 1,2,3, build up your chess, and finally 1,2,3 chess evolution. However, within each number's range, the order I just wrote is correct: first build up, then booster and finally evolution. Maybe it was Yussupov's way to explain his readers that move order is very important in chess, so do not mess up your move order 😉. Good luck to remember the right move order for his books😁. Frankly it would have been less confusing to have them numbered 1 to 9, but the fact that it's not completely obvious that the exercices of book 1 are easier than those of "book 9" is speaking volume imo. There is supposed to be at least 600 elo difference or more in the level of between those books. The series start with under 1500 and finish with under 2100, but imo you won't have much pleasure unless you're already a 2000 player when you start, and even then... everything is relative😄. But the quality is there, so if you think the opposite than me, if you're a believer that training should be hard to simulate at best competition, then those might be the right books for you. Again, the quality is there. And I have the deepest respect for GM Yusdupov, the player who had been a Candidate to the world title (some of his games in his Candidates match against Ivanchuk belong to the perles of our old game, it's spectacular chess at its very best), the second (he seconded Vishy Anand for many years including the 1998 lost match vs Karpov in Lausanne which I could attend live), and I had the great pleasure of watching him play and see live a few times. Including this one time in a chess open in Chicago where he was chatting with GM Vadim Milov and Vadim, recognising me, stopped his conversation with Artur to greet me: wtf Vadim, really? 🤣🤣 At least it gave me the opportunity to say hello to the great Yussupov. But I cannot say we had a conversation: I was too shy and embarrassed by the situation, and Artur, while looking like a bear, seems very shy himself. I'm slightly above 2000 elo FIDE and I find the exercices in the books too difficult with a few exeptions. I'm deeply convinced that over 80% of training should be easy. Build knowledge step by step without too much strain, adopt the concepts slowly but steadily. Easy in general, with a few intensive exceptions, and keep in general your energy for the competition. That's not what you will do with those books. I still use the books from time to time for the remaining intensive training (about 10-15% training time in my case).
@Christiaan1958
Жыл бұрын
Great reply i think!(you are straight to the point a very good thing!) Thanks
@frednimzowi9852
Жыл бұрын
@@Christiaan1958 Oh thanks, nice! That's a big change from people who criticize or say I write top much😅
@Christiaan1958
Жыл бұрын
@@frednimzowi9852 Well these days there are many armchair psychologists and armchair experts creeping out of the woodwork left right and center!, man these guys can tell us and explain games by Magnus even better than Magnus can explain those games himself!...it's like they are more Magnus than Magnus himself!😂
@brechtsmit9845
Жыл бұрын
i had the same impression, i was around 1800 elo on lichess and struggled already with first book 1 after some ten pages far...also they are quite 'dry' written, without any fun quotes or motivation text, very analytical. I prefer a bit more side notes . It looks like a University book, very dry, no emotional part in the book.
@akawojo
Жыл бұрын
nice video, was the first from your channel I ever watched. Funny to listen to a hungarian australian english, I like it ;-)
@dylan1663
Жыл бұрын
I played ridiculous trap for many years . Then I discovered Andras Toth, so I discovered chess
@jackismname
Жыл бұрын
Youve sold me! Ill order it.
@SpaceCadet4Jesus
Жыл бұрын
I have so many chess books idling in queue waiting to be read. You're saying I need these too? Well...Okay.
@johnphamlore8073
Жыл бұрын
Andras is saying you didn't need to buy any other book other than this series if your goal was to become a 2000+ rated player
@Christiaan1958
Жыл бұрын
I also don't believe that THIS IS THE BOOK!
@kevinwellwrought2024
9 ай бұрын
Chess book collection seems to be many people’s hobby nowadays.
@Kounteron
Жыл бұрын
Hi Andras, love your videos. I am around 1600 lichess, so probably a bit too low rating for this series of books. What would you recommend as my first chess book? I've been really enchanted by your review of Mastering Opening Strategy by Johan Helsten. Or do you think I can just go ahead with the Yusupov series?
@ChessCoachAndras
Жыл бұрын
I would actually give it a go!
@Kounteron
Жыл бұрын
@@ChessCoachAndras Thank you! Where do you think the opening strategy book would figure into the Yusupov course?
@zonykel
Жыл бұрын
I think the Seirawan "Winning Chess" series may be more adequate for lower rated players.
@pierrechary9752
Жыл бұрын
If you want to see how hard these books are, even the first of the orange series, just try its mate in two chapter ...
@user-kf8fj2mc7u
Жыл бұрын
Hey Andras, what can you say about chessable courses based on these books? I wanted to get them, but the reviews are mixed
@Andrew-vy6rr
Жыл бұрын
As a chess coach who runs a successful High School program in NY, these are top notch for "competent beginners" who are looking to improve.
@curls6778
Жыл бұрын
Are there any similar books that you would recommend over this series, if one has not read them? (roughly around the same difficulty)
@simonhinkel4086
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your amazing review :) Always looking Forward and got several of your recommended books :) I'm still wondering about Hellstens Endgame Strategy book. Is a review on that still planned? :) Already got the opening book after your review
@alexanderrodriguez1606
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@ChessCoachAndras
Жыл бұрын
Thanks lot Alexander, very kind!
@alexanderrodriguez1606
Жыл бұрын
What you said will help me a lot, you’re very welcome
@ChessCoachAndras
Жыл бұрын
@@alexanderrodriguez1606 Legend!
@rainerausdemspring894
Жыл бұрын
At 8:43 I found 1. Qh7+ Kf8 2. Bf6 More or less the same as your solution. Discovering this over the board is certainly beyond 1500 😛 For me the second puzzle at 10:29 was much easier than the first one. I immediately saw the second bishop move.
@fredia7131
Жыл бұрын
My idea also was to start with Qh7. That also wins, but black has a more stubborn defense with 2...Nce7, when white still has to find Ng5 to continue the attack. 1.Bf6!! is a bit more clean.
@m42orion12
Жыл бұрын
My books are here!!!!
@KeepChessSimple
Жыл бұрын
I once had email contact with Yusupov with a question about the scoring system. If you get the full point if you only got the first move from the solution in bold right. He said the scoring system shouldn't be taking THAT seriously and that it is mainly for fun and motivation. Even if you fail a chapter you have learned something and can move on and come back to it later.
@Diffusion8
Жыл бұрын
Yep, awesome set of books but they certainly require hard work!!
@colefiegel5847
Жыл бұрын
Any thoughts on the Chessable version?
@b.1565
Жыл бұрын
Incomplete forever....
@stewste4316
Ай бұрын
what do you think about Dvoretsky&Yusupov School of Future Champions? Should i combine that course with Yusupov Build up Your Chess, Boost Your Chess, Chess Evolution books ?
@Insidia85
Жыл бұрын
What is the best chess app to study the diagrams of this book, or any chess book with?
@ChessCoachAndras
Жыл бұрын
Chessable
@zeon3d755
Жыл бұрын
Is this book better than Complete Book of Chess Strategy?
@mohamedmohamed-lx9st
2 ай бұрын
how much time it takes to finish reading theoretical introduction of each chapter
@JanKowalski-je7qf
Жыл бұрын
Hi coach Will you make a video about french defence and f6/f5 move in particular? I find it quite difficult to understand what is happening there
@lawrencesayshi
Жыл бұрын
Will I starve to death on this island or will I break 1300 USCF?
@Diffusion8
Жыл бұрын
🤣
@darrylkassle361
Жыл бұрын
So its technically a course good sir???
@adrianross7615
7 ай бұрын
I just bought over 100$ worth of chess books I can’t keep watching these 😅
@Hypercube1729
Жыл бұрын
I have all 3 books in series 1 and 2. Six books in total. I started with the first and o'boy are they boring. And bizarrely difficult. I mean this is sub 1500-puzzle? That bonkers!
@KeepChessSimple
Жыл бұрын
If you find these 'boring' you may not even like chess? Hard thinking is boring?
@angryoldcanadian3905
3 ай бұрын
I purchased the first three book and was very disappointed with them. I remember reading the first book and there was a chapter on move 7 or 8 in the ruy lopez (could have the details wrong) . For under 1500? Almost every beginner chess book I have read said not to concentrate on specific openings, concentrate on opening principles. When other authors do this, they get mocked, but when AY does it, it get praised. As an average club player, I consider these books the most over rated series in print.
@Christiaan1958
Жыл бұрын
Chikos and Chikas...i wonder if Andras know that he is not the most beautiful guy on the planet🤠😂apart from that i think the book of that Indian coach on calculation is probably the best book...why would Yusopov's book suddenly be so great, i hope this has nothing to do with some promotion tricks?🤔
@ChessCoachAndras
Жыл бұрын
I dont even know which part I should respond to. Like WTF mate??
@Christiaan1958
Жыл бұрын
@@ChessCoachAndras Well my problem with your videos is that i don't know if your videos you put on you tube are just your own opinion about how chess work or will these topics you discussed here also be presented by great minds like Kasparov, or Magnus or Fischer, Tal etc in the way you understood the game?(that i don't know...because you know it's harder to unlearn wrong teachings and ideas once it's rooted in the brain!)(In one of Lasker's books...i think Manual of Chess he discussed there that he continually try to unlearn(to empty) his mind of garbage that he has learned over time!...and he explained why etc...I'm sure you know about what I'm talking about? I'm just careful what i put in my brain, fist of all i want to know that it is the truth for starters, so what is wrong with my approach?...because if your videos are true in the way you present them it will withstand all scrutiny and it will stand up to the test of time!...but if it is NOT then it works completely opposite don't you agree?🤔
@KeepChessSimple
Жыл бұрын
The calculation book from 'the Indian coach' is way too hard for sub-2000 players.
@Christiaan1958
Жыл бұрын
@@KeepChessSimple I don't know maybe you are right(i never had the book( i think his name is R.B.Ramesh) in my hands but i listened to the whole podcast where he was interviewed about his book!)...yes it is hard he said but it is hard in terms of dedication to work through that book, it's not hard(as i understood him correctly) that the puzzles and exercises are beyond the understanding of a 2000 rated player or even lower...but anyway it is not a book that that will teach a beginner what castling is or what an pasant is...but that book sound extremely ordered and structured...so you will start off with a and then b and then c and lastly z...this GM Ramesh is one of the best couches in the world...so that is why i said that this book will be my choice if they put a gun to my head to choose a chess book🤠👍
@user-kf8fj2mc7u
Жыл бұрын
@@Christiaan1958 the difference is that R.B. Ramesh wrote a book only on calculation with hard puzzles and Yusupov's series is not just about calculation, but about everything chess (and with hard puzzles too). It doesn't teach you castling either! You're going to work hard even if you're a master level chess player. I had a chance to look at both books and both are great. I would choose Yusupov's series (I mean all 9 books and not just 1) to take with me to desert island, because after learning all of the contents I know I'll be a well-rounded pattern-knowing calculating monster. If I'm to have only R.B. Ramesh's book, I would be just a calculating monster. To add to this, R.B. Ramesh's book is from 2022 and Yusupov's series - from 2011. I don't think this video is an advertisement (and Andras gets paid for it), as the book was published long ago.
@dekkard79
Жыл бұрын
I don't have the books, but I intend to get at least the first one for next year. The reading order is not intuitive but it's easier to remember if you imagine that the circle, square and triangle form an arrow ⏺⏹▶
@steve_etzel
Жыл бұрын
Orange, then blue, then green. My belief is that there is no need to buy all 9 or 10 books at once.
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