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The advice frequently given to chess-players eager to
improve their results is straightforward: study tactics! But there is often
little useful guidance as to how this is best done. By solving puzzle
positions? Or endgame studies? By dissecting the games of great tacticians?
Few books present a structured approach to tactics, so this
book fills a valuable niche in the ambitious player's library. The authors
present each major tactical theme in turn, explaining how it works and
providing inspiring examples. They then explain how you can spot the idea in
your own games and use it to your advantage. You immediately get a chance to
put your knowledge to the test, as there are challenging exercises throughout
the whole book, with detailed solutions.
The second part of the book offers more advanced material,
and takes us inside the professional's tactics laboratory. Here we see how
tactical themes are combined, and employed to achieve strategic goals. We are
also shown how grandmasters spot the targets for their breathtaking
combinations, which we thus come to see not as sheer witchcraft, but as the
product of disciplined thought and training.
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The Alekhine is arguably the most forcing and aggressive
reply to 1 e4. Black immediately forces the pace and drags the game onto his
own favoured territory. This strategy is not without risk, but those who
specialize in the Alekhine find that the opening has a real practical sting and
quick-strike potential.
This book describes the main positional and tactical themes
unique to the Alekhine, and the principal directions of play in modern
practice. The coverage is even-handed, and there are abundant ideas presented
to both sides, including ways for White to seek to consolidate his space
advantage, or else to try to blast Black off the board.
The author, Valentin Bogdanov, has a wealth of
experience with the Alekhine, having played it over the course of more than
three decades. Moreover, he was active in Odessa chess at the time when the
Alekhine was extensively developed by a group of players including GM Semion
Palatnik and three-time US Champion Lev Alburt. Thus he provides us not only
with the benefit of his own accumulated wisdom, but also with insights gleaned
from work with some of the greatest Alekhine devotees of all time.
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* The perfect survival guide to the chess openings
* All
openings covered
* Detailed verbal explanations of plans for both sides
* Up-to-date and featuring many tips and recommendations
* Insights
into the 'character' of each opening
* Written by one of the world's
foremost opening experts
This is not a book that provides masses of variations to
memorize. Paul van der Sterren instead offers a wealth of ideas and
explanation, together with the basic variations of each and every opening. This
knowledge will equip players to succeed in the opening up to good club level,
and provide a superb grounding in opening play on which to build a more
sophisticated repertoire. The strategies he explains will, unlike ever-changing
chess opening theory, remain valid as long as chess is played, and so the time
spent studying this book will be rewarded many times over.
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In this book Lars Bo Hansen shows how chess understanding
has evolved and explains how and why a study of the great champions of the past
and present will significantly improve your chess. Although modern chess is a
highly concrete game where calculation is paramount and principles often appear
to take a back seat, Hansen argues that the principles have become implicit at
top level: "you cannot win games only by following Steinitz's or Nimzowitsch's
principles, but you will certainly lose games if you don't know these
principles!"
Throughout the book, the emphasis is firmly on improving
your chess, and equipping you to improve your chess further by studying on your
own. At the same time, you will enjoy a feast of the most instructive chess
games of all time - both classical and modern. The final chapter discusses the
future development of chess style.
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Assuming no knowledge of chess beyond the rules, Maurice
Ashley guides you on an inspirational journey through the world of chess
tactics. He brings the pieces to life by examining their fundamental
characteristics, and shows how their powers can be put to use to win pieces or
give checkmate - the building-blocks upon which all chess skills are based.
He has been called the Tiger Woods of chess. In 1999,
Maurice Ashley became the first African-American to qualify for the elite
Grandmaster title, an achievement that was widely reported in the international
media, including Time magazine, USA Today, New York Times,
Sports Illustrated and The Times (London). Ashley is one of the
highest-profile figures in American chess, and has commentated on the game for
ESPN and Channel Four Television (UK). He sees chess as playing a role in
helping at-risk youth, and has coached a number of junior teams to victory in
national championships, most famously the Raging Rooks of Harlem, whose
achievement is planned to be the subject of a feature film. In 2003 he was
named Grandmaster of the Year by the US Chess Federation.
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One of the world's foremost chess writers provides
everything you need to know about chess endgames!
Assuming no specialized endgame knowledge, John Nunn
presents 100 key endgame concepts, and explains how they are used to win games
or save difficult positions. He covers all the main types of endgames and
typical thinking methods, and so equips readers with all the skills needed to
excel in this vital phase of the game up to good club level and
beyond.
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