Plus
Workbook Step 2 plus
Quad-language version with over 600 exercises and deeper coverage of the Step 2 themes — including pawn endings and stalemate danger.
Contents
Since 2025 (6th edition) Workbook Step 2 plus is published only in a 4-language version, including Dutch. The reminders have disappeared but are still available as a download. On the freed pages more than 100 new exercises have been added (over 600 in total).
More or less new topics:
- Mating (mate in one by double check, threatening mate)
- Pawn endings
- The opening
- Legal or illegal?
- defending against scholar's mate
Deepening
Deepening of already introduced material:
- Defending — clever ways to get out of check, the right capture, defending against a passed pawn
- Working out mate — mate with 2 pieces, mating patterns
- Stalemate — forcing stalemate, avoiding stalemate, lifting stalemate, stalemate as a weapon, undefendable stalemate?
- Passed pawn — converting and defending against the passed pawn
- Route planners — vision exercises (give check, choose the safe path, mate as fast as possible, capture all pieces)
More information
Lessons for the plus part have been included in the Step 2 manual since the ninth edition.