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The complete book of chess strategy: grandmaster techniques from A to Z
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Siles Press
Publication Date
©1998
Language
English
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ISBN
9781890085018
Table of Contents
From the Book - 1st ed.
Symbol Legend
Chess Notation
The Opening
Basic Opening Strategy
Castling
Development
Fianchetto
Opening Systems
Albin Counter Gambit
Alekhine's Defense
Benko Gambit
Bogo-Indian Defense
Boring Opening (Reversed London System)
Botvinnik Formation
Budapest Gambit
Caro-Kann Defense
Center-Counter Defense
Colle Opening
Czech Benoni
Dutch Defense
English Opening
Four Knights Opening
French Defense
Giuoco Piano
Grob
Grunfeld Defense
Hedgehog Formation
King's Gambit
King's Indian Attack
King's Indian Defense
Larsen's Opening
Modern Benoni Defense
Nimzo-Indian Defense
Orangutan
Petroff Defense
Pirc Defense
Queen's Gambit, Chigorin System
Queen's Gambit Accepted
Queen's Gambit Declined
QGD, Capablanca's Freeing Maneuver
QGD, Tarrasch Defense
Queen's Indian Defense
Reti Opening
Ruy Lopez
Scotch Opening
Semi-Slav Defense
Sicilian Defense
Slav Defense
Stonewall Attack
Torre Attack
Trompowski Opening
Two Knights Defense
Veresov Opening
Preparation
Reversed Openings
Opening Quizzes
The Middlegame
Attack Against the Enemy King
Castling on Opposite Sides
Castling on the Same Side
Classic Bishop Sacrifice
Combination
Combination Themes
Clearance Sacrifice
Decoy
Deflection
Double Attack
Fork
Pins and Skewers
Windmill
X-Rays
Zwischenzug
King in the Center
Kingside Focal Points
Attack Against h7
Attack Against g7
Attack Against f7
Attack Against g6
Attack Against Dark-Squared Complex on f6, g7 and h6
Mating Net
Mating Patterns
Anastasia's Mate
Back Rank Mate
Blackburne's Mate
Boden's Mate
Damiano's Mate
Greco's Mate
Legal's Mate
Morphy's Mate
Morphy's Concealed Mate
Pillsbury's Mate
Reti's Mate
Rook, Knight and Pawn Mate
Smothered Mate
Two Minor Piece Mate
Sacrifice
Tactical Vision
Blockade
Candidate Moves and Imbalances
Centralization
Closed and Open Positions
Compensation
Counterplay
Defensive Strategy
Entombed Pieces
Initiative
Material Advantage
Minority Attack
Minor Pieces
Battle of the Minor Pieces
Laws of Bishops
Laws of Knights
Two Bishops
Two Knights
Mysterious Rook Moves
Open Files
Alekhine's Gun/Tripling
Doubled Rooks
No Entrance!
Opening a File
The Trading File
Who Owns the File?
Overprotection
Pawn Center
Pawn Chain
Pawn Structure
Backward Pawns
Doubled Pawns
Isolated Pawns
Isolated Pawn Couple
Hanging Pawns
Strategy (White)
Strategy (Black)
Hanging squares
Passed Pawns
Pawn Islands
Tripled Pawns
Pawn Tension
Perpetual Check
Piece Activity
Plan
Principle of Two Weaknesses
Prophylaxis
Queenside Pawn Majority
Queenside Majority Versus Kingside Majority
Queenside Majority Versus Central Majority
Restriction
Space
Squares
Static Versus Dynamic Advantages
Support Points
Trading Pieces
Traps
Middlegame Quizzes
The Endgame
Bishop and Wrong Rook Pawn
Cat and Mouse
Exchanging
Minor Pieces in the Endgame
Passed Pawns in the Endgame
Passed Pawns in a Queen Endgame
Pawn Majority and Outside Passed Pawn
Promotion and Underpromotion
Queen and Minor Piece Fights
Stalemate
Using the King
King and Pawn verses King
Opposition
Saving Pawn Moves
Square of the Pawn
Triangulation
Using the Rooks
Active Rook
Lucena Position
Philidor Position
Rooks Behind Passed Pawns
Short and Long Side of the Board
Two Hogs on the Seventh
Endgame Quizzes
Practical Matters
Blunder
Draw Offer
Point Count
Psychology
Time Pressure.
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