Profoundly original book demonstrates how basic relationships of one or two pawns constitute winning strategy. Multitude of examples illustrate theory. 182 diagrams. Index of games.

If you want to improve your middlegame play, you will have to develop a FEEL for positions. That's what Boris Zlotnik has been stressing during his long and rich trainer's career. Clicking through concrete variations (a popular pastime in the computer era) is not enough. To guide your thinking during a game you should be able to fall back on a reservoir of typical ideas and methods. That is exactly what this book offers you: Zlotnik's legendary study material about the middlegame, modernized, greatly extended and published in the English language for the first time. As you familiarize yourself with the most important strategic ideas and manoeuvres, you will need less time to discover the clues in typical middlegame positions. You will find it so much easier to steer your game in the right direction after the opening has ended. Zlotnik's Middlegame Manual is accessible to a wide range of post-beginners and club players. It is your passport to a body of instructive material of unparalleled quality, collected during a lifetime of training and coaching chess. A collection of exercises, carefully chosen and didactically tuned, will help you drill what you have learned.

In order to win against the chess computers at the top level is very difficult; vous must make many sacrifices; without that, it's impossible to win against the chess computers of top level. These 97 quick winning chess of 20 moves or less (100 of 21 moves or less) are a good example of that reality. At chess, the russian empire is on the wane ! Table of contents Replay 100 Winning Chess of 21 Moves Or Less, High Chess Software 0, Canada: 100 Algebraical description Initial position of the pieces Symbols Nature and objective of chess Chessboard pieces form Chessboard Topography Chessboard pieces Example of game with pictures: Algebraic notation without drawing Algebraic notation with drawing Pawns Exception if "prise en passant" (e.p). Prise en passant (e.p) The result if «prise en passant» Let's suppose that it eliminates the Knight in f6. Promotion of a white pawn Imminent promotion of the pawn c7 Promotion of the pawn c7 Imminent promotion Promotion of the pawn e7 in Knight, and checkmate. Rooks The Bishops The Knights The King King's side castle - white and Black pieces Before King's side castle King's side castle for Whites and Blacks pieces King's side castle forbidden for the whites pieces Other King's side castle forbidden for the white pieces Still King's side castle forbidden for the white pieces Queen's side castle Before Queen's side castle Queen's side castle -black and white pieces Queen's side castle forbidden for the white pieces Other Queen's side castle forbidden for the white pieces Again Queen's side castle forbidden for the white pieces Absolute value of pieces Finales bringing draw Finales bringing victory The draw games Stalemate If the same position 3 times in succession is got: draw. Perpetual check Checkmate with only one Rook Checkmate with 2 Bishops Checkmate with 1 Bishop and 1 Knight Here are some basic notions to be known. The square of the pawn Notions of opposition The greatest 5 types of opening Questions often asked by the pupils Some technical considerations 10 main principles of chess Glossary Bibliography 100 quick winning chess (21 moves and less) against the chess computers of top level level

Crystal-clear explanations of grandmaster tactics and strategies from which players of all abilities can learn.

Explains all legal chess moves, and discusses the regulations governing tournaments, lifetime rankings, and tournament director certification.

Many historical chess books focus on individual 19th century masters and tournaments yet little is written covering the full scope of competitive chess through the era. This volume provides a comprehensive overview, with more than a third of the 300 annotated games analyzed by past masters and checked by powerful engines. Players such as Max Lange and Cochrane, known to the chess public only by the name given to a fierce attack or gambit, are brought to life. Fifty masters are each given their own chapter, with brief biographies, results and anecdotes and an endgame section for most chapters.

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.