Winning Chess Strategies

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Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-05-01
Publisher(s): Everyman Chess
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Summary

Readers will gain the advantage over their opponents with easy-to-remember strategies from one of the world's top chess players!

Strategy--it's the ultimate secret weapon for championship players around the world. Drawing on his considerable experience in tournament play, International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan shows players how to apply flexible strategic principles to every part of their game. Using Seirawan's simple and effective planning and analysis techniques, they will enter each game with confidence and energy, ready to play forcefully and intelligently--the way they need to play so they can win every time!

Learn to:
>Knock opponents off balance with bold opening moves
>Formulate an overall game strategy before the middle game
>Interpret the motivation behind an opponent's every move
>Position for a winning endgame

Diagrams throughout the book illustrate game positions, and readers wi'll meet history's greatest chess strategies--learning from them move by move!

Whether for reference during practice games or simply for pleasure reading, Winning Chess Strategies is an information packed resource players will turn to again and again.

Author Biography

Yasser Seirawan is one of the top-ranked chess players in the U.S. and was the first American candidate for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer. He is a four-time U.S Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion and a ten-time member of the U.S. chess Olympiad team. His achievements distinguish him as one of only a handful of players to have defeated world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament play.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 5(3)
CHAPTER ONE The Importance of Strategy 8(6)
CHAPTER TWO Making the Most of a Material Advantage 14(18)
CHAPTER THREE Stopping Enemy Counterplay 32(12)
CHAPTER FOUR Understanding Where the Pieces Go 44(46)
CHAPTER FIVE Superior Minor Pieces 90(18)
CHAPTER SIX How to Use Pawns 108(29)
CHAPTER SEVEN The Creation of Targets 137(22)
CHAPTER EIGHT Territorial Domination 159(17)
CHAPTER NINE Attacking the King 176(18)
CHAPTER TEN Faulty Strategies 194(14)
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Great Masters of Strategy 208(24)
CHAPTER TWELVE Solutions to Tests 232(9)
GLOSSARY 241(9)
INDEX 250

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