Build up your chess mastery volume 3 is aimed at players rated around 2000 who want to make Master. In each of the 24 chapters Yusupov sets out to cover more advanced material than his two previous works, concentrating primarily on the middlegame. Each chapter starts with the introduction of a theme followed by progressively more difficult examples and finally exercises to solve with detailed solutions. Such an approach has been seen before but never as well done. One might ask why it is necessary to have such a high rated player write a book for less-advanced players? The answer is that Yusupov offers the rare combination of tremendous chess knowledge and the ability and desire to share it.

Build up your chess mastery volume 3 is not a random collection of positions tossed together but carefully chosen ones that methodically build up the student’s knowledge from exercise to exercise.