Your Chess Battle Plan
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Your Chess Battle Plan

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eBook - ePub

Your Chess Battle Plan

About this book

Many players are serious about their chess but become stuck at a certain playing strength. It's rarely a lack of talent or practice or opening knowledge that holds them back. Usually they get left behind because they don't know how to make best use of the time they have available to study chess. This book addresses this problem and is your self-improvement plan. It shows you how to work on your own games to root out mistakes. It will sharpen your calculation of variations. You will be challenged to find the best middlegame strategy. Endgame technique is also covered in detail. All topics are discussed with numerous examples and puzzles from the games of modern players such as Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and Viswanathan Anand. If you want your chess to leap forward it's time to Coach Yourself! * A complete self-improvement programme. * All aspects of the game included. * Utilizes a structured approach, making the most of your study time.

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Information

Publisher
Popular Chess
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781781945292

Table of contents

  1. About the Author
  2. Introduction
  3. 1 Improving the Activity of your Pieces
  4. 2 Stopping the Opponent Playing Good Moves
  5. 3 Full Grovel Mode
  6. 4 Punishing Faulty Freeing Moves
  7. 5 Exploiting a Hole
  8. 6 Manoeuvring Against Pawns
  9. 7 Promoting a Pawn
  10. 8 Using a Pawn as a Battering Ram
  11. 9 Sacrificing to Gain the Initiative
  12. 10 Deciding the Character of the Game in the Opening
  13. Index of Games
  14. Anand.V-Giri.A, Shamkir 2019
  15. Anand.V-Nakamura.H, London Chess Classic 2010
  16. Aronian.L-Carlsen.M, Stavanger 2017
  17. Aronian.L-Rapport.R, Wijk aan Zee 2017
  18. Aronian.L-Vachier-Lagrave.M, London Chess Classic 2018
  19. V.Artemiev-Z.Izoria, World Team Championship, Astana 2019
  20. Banusz.T-Vajda.L, Szentgotthard 2010
  21. Belov.V-Socko.B, Hastings 2004/05
  22. Buhr.C-Malakhov.V, European Cup, Kallithea 2008
  23. Carlsen.M-Anand.V, Grand Chess Tour, Zagreb 2019
  24. Carlsen.M-Grischuk.A, Shamkir 2019
  25. Carlsen.M-Hossain.E, Baku Olympiad 2016
  26. Carlsen.M-Karjakin.S, Sinquefield Cup, St. Louis 2017
  27. Carlsen.M-Yu Yangyi, Stavanger 2019
  28. Caruana.F-Carlsen.M, Grenke Classic, Karlsruhe/Baden Baden 2019
  29. Caruana.F-Carlsen.M, Tromsø Olympiad 2014
  30. Caruana.F-Shankland.S, US Championship, St. Louis 2016
  31. Demchenko.A-Gukesh.D, Ho Chi Minh City 2019
  32. Doghri.N-Ilincic.Z, Istanbul Olympiad 2000
  33. Duda.J-Navara.D, Prague 2019
  34. Duda.J-Rapport.R, Wijk aan Zee 2019
  35. Fedoseev.V-Giri.A, Wijk aan Zee 2019
  36. Giri.A-Caruana.F, Wijk aan Zee 2013
  37. Giri.A-Harikrishna.P, Shenzhen 2019
  38. Grischuk.A-Gelfand.B, FIDE Grand Prix, Khanty-Mansiysk 2015
  39. Grischuk.A-Volokitin.A, Baku Olympiad 2016
  40. Habu.Y-Kasparov.G, Rapid Match, Tokyo 2014
  41. Hou Yifan-Toufighi.H, Subic Bay 2009
  42. Ivic.V-Predke.A, European Championship, Skopje 2019
  43. Karjakin.S-Esipenko.A, World Rapid Championship, Riyadh 2017
  44. Karjakin.S-So.W, FIDE Candidates, Berlin 2018
  45. Korobov.A-Anand.V, German Bundesliga 2019