when a favourable imbalance or the possibility of creating a favourable imbalance exists. Don't calculate! Instead, dream up various fantasy positions, i.e., the positions you would most like to achieve. Once you find a fantasy position that makes you happy, you must figure out if you can reach it. If you find that your choice was not possible to implement, you must create another dream position that is easier to achieve. Only now do you look at the moves you wish to calculate (called candidate moves). The candidate moves are all the moves that lead to our dream position. Books Autobiography of a Goat, 2013, 252 pages, Maelstrom Press, . How to Reassess your Chess (4th edition): Chess Mastery through Chess Imbalances, 2010, 658 pages, Siles Press, . Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner To Master, 2007, 530 pages, Siles Press, . Pal Benko: My Life, Games and Compositions, with Pal Benko and John L. Watson, 2004, 520 pages, Siles Press, . Gambits in the Slav with William John Donaldson, 2003, 160 pages, Chess Enterprises, . The Reassess your Chess Workbook: How to Master Chess Imbalances, 2001, 400 pages, Siles Press, . The Amateur's Mind (2nd edition): Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery, 1999, 443 pages, Siles Press, . Accelerated Dragons (2nd edition) with William John Donaldson, 1998, 320 pages, Everyman Chess, . The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z, 1998, 360 pages, Siles Press, . Winning with the Sicilian Defense (2nd edition): A Complete Repertoire against 1.e4, 1998, 353 pages, Chess Digest, . Essential Chess Endings Explained Move by Move Volume One: Novice thru Intermediate, 1992, 223 pages, Chess Digest, . The Dynamic Caro-Kann: The Bronstein Larsen and the Original Caro System, 1990, 182 pages, Summit Publishing, . A Complete Black Repertoire, 1986, 126 pages, Chess Digest, . References External links Personal web page Chess Position from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Reconstructed in a YouTube video. Profile on chess.com "How+To"+Courses_18_0 Silman's courses on The Great Courses 1954 births Living people 20th-century American Jews American chess players Jewish chess players Chess International Masters Chess coaches American non-fiction writers American chess writers American male non-fiction writers People from Del Rio, Texas Jews and Judaism in Texas 21st-century American Jews