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Superb defensive technique is a hallmark of all great
chess-players. With a few deft counterstrokes, they not only deflect what
looked like an overwhelming offensive, but also expose the darker side of their
opponent's build-up. Is this sheer black magic, or are these skills that
ordinary players can develop?
While some of the key defensive skills follow
well-established principles, modern players ally this with an appreciation of
chess dynamics that is a good deal more subtle. Zenon Franco provides a
wide-ranging course in how to handle difficult positions, seeking not only to
hold them together but to go on the counteroffensive, exploiting to the full
the commitments and concessions the opponent has made to launch his attack. The
methods he advocates are varied: often a countersacrifice is the key, while
simplification can also employed as a subtler, but equally deadly
weapon.
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The Stonewall Dutch is a traditional favourite amongst club
players, as it offers Black ready-made attacking plans on the kingside. As
Grandmaster Bent Larsen has noted, the Dutch also has the tendency to 'bring
out the coward' in opponents, giving it an added practical sting.
However, up until the late 1980s, the Stonewall wasn't fully
trusted at grandmaster level, despite its earlier use by Alekhine and
Botvinnik. Black's attacking plans were too one-sided, and White's methods too
well worked out. The change came when a new generation of players, including
Nigel Short and Simen Agdestein, showed that Black could handle his position in
many other ways, including play on the queenside and in the centre, with the
'Stonewall' structure stifling White's attempts to generate play of his own.
Agdestein in particular has continued to experiment with many new set-ups and
move-orders for Black, and this book contains a wealth of new recommendations
and suggestions based on this work.
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62 brilliant games involving the best players in the
world, with notes by one of the top annotators.
Igor Stohl has selected 62 outstanding games from recent
years and analysed them in painstaking depth. Here he presents his findings to
chess enthusiasts, who will find the games entertaining and the annotations
both instructive and illuminating. Stohl is an outstanding theoretical expert,
so the opening phase of each game reads like a lesson in the key strategic
aspects of the opening chosen, with a critical survey of modern trends. The
middlegame is dissected and the critical decisions subjected to keen scrutiny -
we are invited inside Stohl's laboratory to join him in the quest for the
truth. The endgame phase, if reached, is handled with similar erudition, with
insights into the grandmaster's approach to questions of technique. Following
each game there is a discussion of the most important lessons to be
learned.
The expanded and revised new edition of this award-winning
work features 12 new top-level games from the period 2000-2007 annotated in
great depth - about 40% new material. There are also corrections to the
existing notes and a revised Introduction.
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The Grünfeld Defence is one of the most aggressive
openings at Black's disposal. He creates immediate imbalance and plans to
strike at White's centre with all available resources. An insipid response from
White may not even retain equality, so in the main lines he takes up the
gauntlet: he creates a large pawn-centre and puts this to use to launch an
attack. While the theory of these lines has been extensively developed, there
is a coherent logical thread running through them: the Grünfeld is
essentially an opening of grand ideas, which need to be understood well in
order to get to grips with the theory and handle the resulting positions. This
book provides a discussion of all major lines, and a special contribution from
Viacheslav Eingorn on the key ideas of the Rb1 Exchange main line, which he was
instrumental in developing in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The Main-Line Slav is one of the key battlegrounds of modern
chess, with adherents among all levels of chess-players. It is notoriously
difficult for White to prove any advantage against Black's solid set-up, while
the lack of symmetry in the position provides scope for creative players to
obtain winning chances with either colour. This book discusses all major lines
following the moves 1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 Nf3 Nf6 4 Nc3 dxc4. There are many
strategic directions the play can take: sometimes the centre is blasted open
and piece-play dominates, while in other cases the centre becomes fixed, or
remains dynamic well into the middlegame. Vigorito dissects the most important
themes and nuances, placing them firmly in the context of the practical
struggle, making sure that readers will be familiar with the resources at their
disposal, and understand when to employ them.
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Most chess puzzle books put you in an artificial situation:
you are told a combination exists, what the theme is and what you are required
to achieve. This one is different. In a real game, a player may sometimes need
to find a combination. On the other hand he may have to reject a tactical idea
and simply find a good positional move. His task is to find the right move,
whatever it may be. The 300 puzzles in this book put you precisely in that
situation. Spectacular ideas abound in these positions, but it is for you to
decide whether to go in for them, or whether you would be falling into a trap.
If you need them, there are hints to help you on your way. The book ends with a
series of tests to measure your skills against those of other players.
For this new edition, John Nunn, a top-class grandmaster and
a solving world champion, has added 50 new puzzles (with hints and detailed
solutions) to test your skills to the full. For ease of following, extra
diagrams have been added to the solutions throughout. Overall the book is 60
per cent bigger than the first edition.
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LEARN MORE ABOUT POKER Poker is a popular pastime amongst chess players. To
learn more about poker try Pokerlistings.com. Pokerlistings has a good
strategy and rules section and also lists the
best US poker rooms.
They also have a poker video section that features strategy videos as well as
poker tournament coverage. |
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