Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces

Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces
Author: Igor Stohl
Publisher: Gambit Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781906454081

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.

Fundamental Chess Strategy in 100 Games

Fundamental Chess Strategy in 100 Games
Author: Boroljub Zlatanovic
Publisher: Thinkers Publishing
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2020-01-15
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9789492510686

This book would bring something new into your chess library. In computer era focus is usually on openings. Watching broadcasts new generations rather choose games with favorite opening played seeking for some interesting idea or even brilliant novelty. I offer and recommend different concept, based on famous Soviet chess school. Focus should be on understanding strategy concepts, principles and inner logic. Fashionable opening lines will be forgotten (or re-evaluated) sooner or later, but understanding cannot be lost and can be only upgraded. It is sad to see some player well equipped with opening lines, unable to realize big positional advantage in deep endgame. So, our advice is to learn about Strategy and Logic. The book is highly recommended for club players, advanced players and masters, although even higher rated players can find a lot of useful things for themselves. There is no doubt lower rated players will learn a lot about thinking process and making decisions, while some logical principles can be good advice for strong players also.

101 Questions on How to Play Chess

101 Questions on How to Play Chess
Author: Fred Wilson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1994
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780486282732

A chess expert has distilled an enormous amount of information into an easy-to-follow, question-and-answer format that not only explains the most basic rules and essentials of play, but also offers advice on opening, combinations, middle- and end-game strategies, notation, castling, and other topics. Over 100 carefully chosen diagrams and illustrations.

Chess

Chess
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 702
Release: 1974
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN:

Chess Openings: Traps And Zaps

Chess Openings: Traps And Zaps
Author: Bruce Pandolfini
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1439147043

In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase. Of the three traditional phases of chess play—the opening, the middle-game and the endgame—the opening is the phase average players confront most often. Unfortunately, though, many openings are not completed successfully, partly because until now most opening instruction has consisted of tables of tournament level moves that offer no explanations for the reasons behind them. Consequently, these classical opening patterns can serve as little more than references to the average player. In Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps, Bruce Pandolfini uses his unique "crime and punishment" approach to provide all the previously missing explanation, instruction, practical analyses, and much, much more. The book consists of 202 short "openers" typical of average players, arranged according to the classical opening variations and by level of difficulty. Each example includes: -the name of the overriding tactic -the name of the opening -a scenario that sets up the tactic to be learned -an interpretation that explains why the loser went wrong, how he could have avoided the trap, and what he should have done instead -a review of important principles and useful guidelines to reinforce each lesson Also included are a glossary of openings that lists all the classical "textbook" variations for comparison and reference and a tactical index. Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps is a powerful, pragmatic entry into a heretofore remote area of chess theory that will have a profound influence on every player's game.

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Author: Good Companion Chess Problem Club, Philadelphia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1918
Genre:
ISBN:

Subject Catalog

Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 1976
Genre: Catalogs, Subject
ISBN: