Your Chess Battle Plan

Neil McDonald

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781781945292

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.

Table of contents

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