Training with Moska: Practical Chess Exercises - Tactics, Strategy, Endgames - Moskalenko "Plastic Chess Sets" Columbus learnt to sail from

Columbus learnt to sail from an early age and later worked as a business agent

86 (Black would have an advantage of close to 1 pawn equivalent)

along with a collection of very recent examples

Invaluable advice is given about what to look for and how to play each specific category

rather than by emerging victorious from an early tactical melee (which is rather problematic with the black pieces at the best of times)

Training with Moska: Practical Chess Exercises - Tactics, Strategy, Endgames - Moskalenko "Plastic Chess Sets" Columbus learnt to sail fromViktor Moskalenko is one of the leading chess instructors in the world. Training with Moska is a based on the best instructive material he collected while working with amateurs for three decades. The book covers a wide variety of aspects of the game and the more than 500 instructive positions are accessible for players of different strengths. If you have an ELO rating between 1400 and 2100, this book will help you make a big step forward. With his