Understanding the Chess Openings

Understanding the Chess Openings

Author: Sam Collins

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904600282

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An invaluable guide to how modern chess openings are played. This major new work surveys all chess openings, providing a guide to every critical main line and featuring extensive descriptions of the typical strategies for both sides. These commentaries will be welcomed by all club and tournament players, as they will better help them handle middlegame positions arising from each opening.


Your Chess Battle Plan

Your Chess Battle Plan

Author: Neil McDonald

Publisher: Everyman Chess

Published: 2020-02-01

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 1781945292

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One of the most challenging tasks in a chess game is to find the correct strategy. It is far easy to attack too randomly, to miss a vital opportunity, or even choose the wrong plan altogether. These are all mistakes frequently seen by even quite strong players. Your Chess Battle Plan focuses on how Magnus Carlsen and other great masters decide on the best strategy in a position and then find the right ways to implement it. Clear advice shows you how to hone in on the most relevant features of a position in order to decide what your general plan needs to be. Factors that are addressed include when to exchange pieces, when to make long-range manoeuvres, when to offer sacrifices and how to identify and focus on key squares. Your Chess Battle Plan will get you thinking along the right strategic lines and using your pieces and pawns in a much more efficient and skilful manner. * A complete self-improvement programme. * Advice to evaluate the current level of planning in your own games. * Utilizes a structured approach, making the most of your study time.


Chess Openings For Dummies

Chess Openings For Dummies

Author: James Eade

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-07-08

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0470882395

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Improve your chess game the fast and easy way You never get a second chance to make a first impression?especially in the game of chess! Chess Openings For Dummies gives you tips and techniques for analyzing openings and strategies for winning chess games from the very first move you make! This friendly, helpful guide provides you with easy-to-follow and step-by-step instructions on the top opening chess strategies and gives you the tools you need to develop your own line of attack from the very start. Includes illustrations to help ensure victory Equips you with the tools and strategies to plan a winning strategy Also serves as a valuable resource for curriculums that use chess as a learning tool Whether you?re a veteran or novice chess player, Chess Openings For Dummies is the ultimate guide to getting a grip on the openings and variants that will ensure you have all the right moves to open and win any chess game.


Openings for Amateurs

Openings for Amateurs

Author: Pete Tamburro

Publisher:

Published: 2014-06-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781936277506

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Learning how to start a game of chess is one of the most daunting tasks facing intermediate adult and young chess players. Award-winning chess teacher and championship scholastic coach Pete Tamburro offers practical guidance for avoiding common pitfalls at the chessboard, as well as effective strategies for meeting troublesome openings and a choice of openings reflecting his focus on ideas over memorization.


Mastering the Chess Openings

Mastering the Chess Openings

Author: John Watson

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904600602

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Presents information on the ideas and strategies for chess openings.


The Complete Manual of Positional Chess

The Complete Manual of Positional Chess

Author: Konstantin Sakaev

Publisher: New In Chess,Csi

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789056916824

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Russia boasts a long and rich tradition in chess education and Russian chess teachers and trainers are simply the best in the world. The Complete Manual of Positional Chess is the latest and most comprehensive product of this Russia striving for perfection. This handbook, probably the most thorough grounding in the history of teaching chess, was recently created for chess teachers at the DYSS, the special sports school for young talents in Russia. Konstantin Sakaev and Konstantin Landa present a complete set of instructions and tips for trainers and self-improvers. It teaches you not only how to enhance your fundamental knowledge and technical skills, but also how to work on your physical and psychological conditioning. If you complete this course you will be able to assess virtually any position you are confronted with. With its all-encompassing approach this ground-breaking book allows everyone to reap the fruits of the long tradition of instructive excellence in Russia.