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International Master Jonathan Hawkins was a relatively slow starter in the world of chess. Learning the game at the age of eight, he was a keen junior who won a number of local tournaments. But by his own admission, by the time I was in my mid-teens my age-to-playing-strength ratio was distinctly average. He started to study chess very seriously in his late teens and achieved a rapid rise through the ranks. He became a FIDE Master in 2008 and earned the title of International Master in 2010. 2011 brought Jonathan two Grandmaster norms. One of them was earned at the super-strong British Championship, in which he outscored numerous Grandmasters to share third place. How did Jonathan Hawkins manage to go from being an average tournament competitor to a player on the brink of clinching the Grandmaster title? It took just three years for him to become a FIDE Master, an International Master and to achieve his first two Grandmaster norms. The secret was knowing what to study and how to learn as efficiently as possible. Focusing his attention firmly on the endgame, Jonathan devised a number of building blocks and identified a number of very important areas of study. The result of his hard

Who reads Amateur to IM : Proven Ideas and Training Methods?

Author

Jonathan Hawkins; Sean Marsh

Publisher

Mongoose Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781936277407

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Games, Anthropology, Lifestyle

Rating

4.4 / 5 (118 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14