Timeline for How to improve positional chess understanding?

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Jun 26, 2016 at 20:21	comment	added	Priyome		Silman outlines a direct step-by-step process for assessing a position and finding moves in ALL versions of his book. I have had the original, the third, and now the fourth. Not sure what you are reading.
Jun 26, 2016 at 8:29	comment	added	Jester		@Mark Godwin: I think this step-by-step process was in previous editions of the book. The most recent 4th edition does not contain a step-by-step process, though it certainly contains many criteria, namely all the positional basics along with explanations and examples how to make use of them and ideas to strengthen positional advantages. Of course, ultimately, you aim for a tactical shot, but this is not the point of the book, it is just the natural consequence of reaching a critical mass of positional advantages.
Jun 22, 2016 at 18:47	comment	added	Priyome		Silman's book is less about positional chess and more about developing useful plans using a step-by-step criteria/process. Often his method will point towards a tactical shot. Positional chess is more or less knowing common priyomes and being aware of how to play for and against them. "Priyome" is just a russian word for pattern recognition. They are generally described at a 40,000 foot level, unlike tactics, which are detailed and concrete.
Jun 21, 2016 at 12:52	comment	added	RemcoGerlich		+1 for Yusupov (and similar books). If you read a prose book on positional factors, it's easy to believe that you understand what they say, and then during a game you'll find it very hard to apply (or you apply it superficially and find it doesn't work). Yusupov gives you concrete positions to solve, and it turns out to be very hard to solve even the simple ones. But that's what makes you better, in the end.
Jun 21, 2016 at 9:40	history	answered	Jester	CC BY-SA 3.0