Plus
Workbook Step 3 plus
Quad-language version with 636 exercises, new topics (minor promotion, intermediate move, rook pawn) and deeper coverage of familiar themes.
Contents
Since 2018 Workbook Step 3 plus is published only in a 4-language version, including Dutch. The 10 reminders have disappeared but are still available as a download. On the freed pages more than 100 new exercises have been added (636 in total).
More or less new topics:
- Minor promotion
- The intermediate move
- The rook pawn
Deepening
Deepening of (briefly) introduced material:
- Small plan — moving a piece to a better square, increasing activity, improving the pawn structure
- Eliminating the defence — eliminating two defenders with one piece, luring defenders with two tasks
- Mate — bringing in protectors, bringing in attackers
- Opening — development, well-known opening combinations
- X-ray — X-ray as a help in other combinations, X-ray protection
- Defending against mate — an extension of the lesson from Step 2
- Pinned pieces — combinations exploiting the pin
- The square — an extension of the lesson from Step 3
- Discovered attack — special forms: intermediate move, eliminating the defence and trapping
More information
Lessons for the plus part are in the Step 3 manual.