Play Like a Champion

Jennifer Shahade

• Publisher: Mongoose Press
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781936277667
• Edition: 1

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.

Table of contents

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