Do you relish the prospect of setting your opponent awkward problems from the early start of the game? If so, you should just continue reading, for in the Bg5 Najdorf, it’s every man for himself, and only the best informed and most creative resourceful player survive. The Bg5 variation gives White very dangerous attacking ideas, and Blacks really needs to know a precise defense to come out of this variation alive. This book provides weapons that are ideal choices for those who revel in forcing opponents into chaotic and uncomfortable positions. Lukasz Jarmula, a player and writer of international caliber, will be your truthful guide!
Magnus Carlsen’s mastery of the middlegame is astonishing, even by the standards of World Champions. But how did this power develop, and what can the rest of us learn from it? To explain the mysteries requires another elite grandmaster, and Ivan Sokolov is perfectly qualified for this role. Magnus Carlsen’s Middlegame Evolution allows the reader to celebrate the brilliance of the highest-rated chess player in history while learning from his example. With insightfully annotated games, Sokolov takes us inside the mind of a chess genius.
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But let me now explain the idea of this second book. I will show you some 18 games with the more or less current trends in the double fianchetto. These games include some openings like the Tarrasch and the King’s Indian, just to name a few. The main part of the book is divided into exercises and solutions, with 110 positions taken from double fianchetto games. I have divided the exercises into chapters, with each chapter featuring games by players who have deployed the double fianchetto quite often. You will find a lot of typical motifs used by these players. The difficulty level ranges from very easy through to very tough, but I won’t give points for the solutions. The ideas vary from tactics to important strategic subtleties. The reader decides how honestly he or she tries to solve these exercises. It is also not necessary to solve all of them, but it is definitely important to think about these positions and take your time. The reader should gain an impression of the many ideas and structures which are possible in the double fianchetto positions.
Matthew Sadler presents a unique set of methods to work out using an engine. Preparing openings and training early middlegame play, the conversion of advantages, positional play,and defense. And of course: how to analyze one’s own games. These generic training methods Sadler supplements with concrete middlegame and opening tools (techniques, ideas) developed by various top engines. Sadler illustrates his lessons with a collection of fantastic games, explained with his trademark enthusiasm. For the first time the superhuman powers of the chess engine have been decoded to the benefit of all players, in a rich and highly instructive book. Ten thousands of players own a chess engine, but they mostly just use it to check and calculate variations. Matthew Sadler presents unique methods to work out with a chess engine and shows specific middlegame tools and opening strategies developed by engines. For the first time, the superhuman powers of the chess engine have been decoded to the benefit of all chess players.
2020 ENDGAME MAZE, selected and analysed by Ivan Ivanisevic: * Practice your planning and decision-making skills in the final phase of the game!, * Complete coverage of most instructive and interesting endgames in 2020, * 151 carefully selected endgame positions, * 42 test positions.
CHESS INFORMANT’S 149th ADVENTURE
United Colours of Autumn
CONTENTS:
FIDE WORLD CUP 2021 GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, IM Miodrag Perunović, GM Velimir Ivić
SOUTH AMERICANS IN THE WORLD CUP GM Rafael Leitão
QUEEN'S GAMBIT ACCEPTED – Vienna Variation GM Miloš Perunović
VENI, VIDI, VICI GM Sabina-Francesca Foişor
SINQUEFIELD CUP 2021 GM Elshan Moradiabadi
DANNY'S CHESS DIARY GM Daniel Gormally
GOLDMONEY ASIAN RAPID GM Priyadharshan Kannappan
THE SEMI-TARRASCH – PART I GM Nigel Davies
THE RUY LÓPEZ – Anti-Marshall GM Krisztián Szabó
A STORY ABOUT HORSES AND ELEPHANTS GM Michael Prusikin
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES GM Marian Petrov
ROGERS’ REMINISCENCES – Reggio Emilia 1984/85 GM Ian Rogers
FROM THE CHESS INFORMANT ARCHIVES Douglas Griffin
Traditional sections: games, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game from the preceding volume and the most important theoretical novelty from the preceding volume.
The periodical that pros use with pleasure is at the same time a must have publication for all serious chess students!
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