Squeeze Play
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Squeeze Play

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eBook - ePub

Squeeze Play

About this book

How often have you seen a game like this? The hero has no advantage whatsoever but somehow manages to keep setting the opponent problems. Their opponent goes slightly astray and suddenly hero has a tiny advantage. It's not much but now that they have a little something to work with, they are in their element. They play accurately and remorselessly and make life incredibly difficult for their opponent. Suddenly, and almost imperceptibly, their advantage increases. Further tiny inaccuracies follow, hero turns the screw and bags the full point. Their opponent is left shaking their head, wondering where on earth they went wrong. This is the squeeze and the great champions have been capable of squeezing opponents to death. José Capablanca, Tigran Petrosian, Anatoly Karpov and, in the current era, Magnus Carlsen are legendary in this respect. How do they do it? How do they set problems in apparently sterile positions? How can they continuously manage to defeat world class opposition from positions that others would simply give up as drawn? In this book, Cyrus Lakdawala explains the mechanisms commonly used in squeeze plays. Using examples from the world's greatest strategic masters he unpicks the secrets of the squeeze.

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Information

Publisher
Popular Chess
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781781946930

Table of contents

  1. About the author
  2. Bibliography
  3. Introduction
  4. 1 Blood from a Stone: How Magnus Squeezes Wins Out of Nothing
  5. 2 The Squeeze: Exploiting a Territorial Advantage
  6. 3 Exploiting Weakness on a Single Colour
  7. 4 Exploiting a Superior Minor Piece
  8. 5 Initiative and Superior Piece Activity
  9. 6 Exploiting a Superior Pawn Structure
  10. 7 Exploiting Imbalances
  11. 8 Accumulating Advantages
  12. 9 Converting Extra Material
  13. 10 Winning From Less than Nothing
  14. Index of Complete Games
  15. Adly.A-Carlsen.M, Dresden Olympiad 2008
  16. Anand.V-Carlsen.M, World Championship (Game 6), Chennai 2013
  17. Andersson.U-Fernandez Garcia.J, Las Palmas 1980
  18. Andersson.U-Gruenfeld.Y, Lucerne Olympiad 1982
  19. Andersson.U-Larsen.B, Match (Game 8), Stockholm 1975
  20. Andersson.U-Stean.M, Sao Paulo 1979
  21. Capablanca.J-Lasker.E, World Championship (Game 11), Havana 1921
  22. Capablanca.J-Teichmann.R, Exhibition Match (Game 2), Berlin 1913
  23. Capablanca.J-Treybal.K, Karlsbad 1929
  24. Capablanca.J-Villegas.B, Buenos Aires (simul) 1914
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  32. Carlsen.M-Eljanov.P, Wijk aan Zee 2008
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  34. Carlsen.M-Karjakin.S, World Championship (Game 10), New York 2016
  35. Carlsen.M-Le Quang Liem, Airthings Masters (online rapid) 2022
  36. Carlsen.M-Morozevich.A, Morelia/Linares 2007
  37. Carlsen.M-Nakamura.H, Meltwater Tour Final (online rapid) 2021
  38. Carlsen.M-Nepomniachtchi.I, World Championship (Game 6), Dubai 2021
  39. Carlsen.M-Short.N, Hoogeveen 2004
  40. Carlsen.M-Tiviakov.S, European Team Championship, Heraklion 2007
  41. Carlsen.M-Wojtaszek.R, FIDE World Cup, Krasnaya Polyana 2021
  42. Caruana.F-Carlsen.M, Wijk aan Zee 2022
  43. Cheparinov.I-Carlsen.M, FIDE World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk 2005
  44. Fischer.R-Gheorghiu.F, Buenos Aires 1970
  45. Fischer.R-Petrosian.T, Candidates Final (Game 7), Buenos Aires 1971
  46. Fischer.R-Spassky.B, World Championship (Game 10), Reykjavik 1972
  47. Gurevich.M-Short.N, Manila Interzonal 1990