Excelling at Chess Volume 1: Technical and Positional - Jacob AagaardExcelling at Chess Volume 1: Technical and Positional Jacob Aagaard Brought together in one volume are two of Jacob Aagaard's great books Excelling at Technical Chess and Excelling at Positional Chess. "And the rest is a matter of technique" is an annoyingly common phrase used in chess literature. The implication from the author is that the task of converting a typically winning position into a full point or converting a drawing position into half a