Play Like a Champion
eBook - ePub

Play Like a Champion

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eBook - ePub

Play Like a Champion

About this book

In Play Like a Champion, Jennifer Shahade showcases the careers and sparkling tactics of some of the most talented and influential players to ever sit at the chessboard, from the first Women's World Champion Vera Menchik and Grandmaster Hou Yifan to Phiona “Queen of Katwe” Mutesi. Learn the powerful moves of family chess dynasties including the Polgar and the Botez sisters.

Jennifer walks you through essential and inspiring examples of themes such as Double Attack, Removal of the Guard, and Clearance. You'll get your turn to solve 700 puzzles from the games of more than one hundred pioneering chess champions. The positions are designed to help chess improvers (from beginner to master) to develop their tactical vision.

Solve the positions here, and you too will start to Play Like a Champion.

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Information

Publisher
Mongoose Press
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781936277667
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1: Mate in One/Mrs. Fisher
  7. Chapter 2: Mate in Two/Nona Gaprindashvili
  8. Chapter 3: Mate in Three/Ellen Gilbert
  9. Chapter 4: Queen Sacrifice/Vera Menchik and Sonja Graf
  10. Chapter 5: The Double Attack/Pia and Anna Cramling
  11. Chapter 6: The Pin/Sabrina Chevannes
  12. Chapter 7: The Skewer/Sara Khadem and Atousa Pourkashiyan
  13. Chapter 8: X-ray/Isabelle Choko
  14. Chapter 9: Discovered Attack/The Botez Sisters
  15. Chapter 10: The Back Rank/Alexandra Kosteniuk
  16. Chapter 11: Smothered Mate/Irina Krush
  17. Chapter 12: Distraction and Removal of the Guard/Judit Polgár
  18. Chapter 13: Traps/Nadya Ortiz
  19. Chapter 14: Zap and Destroy/Dina Belenkaya
  20. Chapter 15: Clearance/Susan Polgár
  21. Chapter 16: Levers and Rook Lifts/Phiona Mutesi
  22. Chapter 17: Blocking/Hou Yifan
  23. Chapter 18: Defense/Rochelle Ballantyne
  24. Chapter 19: Pawn Promotion/Nurgyul Salimova
  25. Chapter 20: Liquidation/Jennifer Yu
  26. Chapter 21: Chess Problems/Yosha Iglesias
  27. Chapter 22: Destruction/Koneru Humpy
  28. Chapter 23: In-Between Move/Jen Shahade to Alice Lee
  29. Solutions
  30. Sources
  31. Illustrations and Images
  32. Acknowledgments