Strategic Play

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Pub. Date: 2002-10-01
Publisher(s): Olms
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Summary

This third volume in Mark Dvoretsky's School of Chess Excellence series is devoted to questions of strategy aimed at improving the reader's positional understanding. The author also examines a number of positions that lie on the boundary between the middlegame and the endgame. As in the other books in the series, Dvoretsky uses examples from his own games and those of his pupils as well as episodes from other players' games.

Table of Contents

Preface 7(1)
Part six Positional Play 8(133)
The logic of a positional battle
9(10)
Which pawn to advance?
19(4)
Undermining pawn moves
23(7)
The blocking of passed pawns
30(6)
The two bishops
36(4)
An unusual exchange
40(6)
Mistakes, mistakes
46(8)
Advantage in space
54(8)
Routes for the rook
62(7)
Don't forget about prophylaxis!
69(9)
`Mysterious' rook moves
78(4)
Training with grandmasters
82(8)
What is meant by a strategic plan?
90(7)
How a plan is formulated
97(5)
Clash of plans
102(7)
The initiative
109(11)
I seek a win
120(10)
An `easy' win
130(7)
Exercises for analysis
137(4)
Part seven Simple Positions 141(55)
Attack with a small army
143(6)
Abundance of possibilities
149(8)
A memorable loss
157(7)
When technique lets you down
164(5)
The scales tipped
169(5)
A course in tactics
174(4)
Defend actively!
178(3)
Failure to take the initiative
181(5)
Turning points
186(8)
Exercises for analysis
194(2)
Solutions to exercises 196(33)
Appendix
Index of exercises by thinking skills and types of problems to be solved 229(2)
Index of players 231

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