Grandmaster Chess Strategy

What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces

Jurgen Kaufeld, Guido Kern

• Publisher: New in Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9789056915322
• Year: 2015

What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces

One of the most effective ways to improve your chess is to take a world class-player as your example. By collecting his games, studying his choices and examining his style, you will understand what made him rise to the very top.

This is what Guido Kern and Jurgen Kaufeld have done with Swedish chess legend Ulf Andersson, a positional genius with a crystal-clear style, who rose to the number 4 spot of the FIDE world rankings.

Kaufeld and Kern have selected 80 of Andersson’s games and grouped them into 15 thematic strategy lessons, pinpointing exactly how the Swede made the difference in each case. Their instructive verbal explanations will improve your strategic skills and your positional feeling.

Every chess player knows how difficult it can be to convert an advantage into a win. Positional technique is what you need and Grandmaster Chess Strategy teaches you exactly that.

Throughout the book the authors have selected dozens of test positions at particularly instructive stages of the games.

Table of contents

• CHAPTER 1 PLAYING AGAINST TWO WEAKNESSES
• CHAPTER 2 AN ADVANTAGE IN SPACE
• CHAPTER 3 CONTROL OF THE D-FILE
• CHAPTER 4 PROPHYLAXIS
• CHAPTER 5 PLAYING AGAINST THE ISOLATED PAWN
• CHAPTER 6 THE BISHOP PAIR
• CHAPTER 7 AN ORIGINAL EXCHANGE OF BISHOP FOR KNIGHT
• CHAPTER 8 FIGHTING AGAINST THE HEDGEHOG
• CHAPTER 9 THE POSITIONAL EXCHANGE SACRIFICE
• CHAPTER 10 THE POSITIONAL QUEEN SACRIFICE
• CHAPTER 11 THE ART OF DEFENCE
• CHAPTER 12 THE CATALAN ENDGAME
• CHAPTER 13 ROOK ENDINGS
• CHAPTER 14 ROOK AND MINOR PIECE
• CHAPTER 15 MINOR PIECE ENDINGS
• A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF ULF ANDERSSON
• KEY TO SYMBOLS USED