The work deals with possibilities of increment increase in parent stand remaining after shelterwood cut of various intensity. The research was performed at 4 partial plots in a beech stand with various intensities of cutting. The significance of the influence of release on diameter increment is solved in the paper. Increments of two periods (1989-1995, 1996-2001) were evaluated. Results confirmed that increment of trees remaining in a forest stand corresponds to intensity of cutting intervention. The highest values of increment are in partial plots (PP) with intense cutting (1) and the lowest in plot without cutting. From the obtained results it follows that the more intense the shelterwood cutting, the more balanced the increments among diameter classes of trees. The less intense the shelterwood cutting, the more the increments depend on tree diameter. When intense cutting is applied the response of beech trees to light increment was expressed during both evaluated periods in nearly unchanged intensity. When medium intense cutting (PP M) is used, increased increment was expressed for a shorter period. It follows that the intervention needs to be repeated sooner. In the case when low intensity cutting (PP L) is applied it is similar.