Complete Book of Chess Strategy Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z

Name: Complete Book of Chess Strategy Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z
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ISBN: 9781890085018

ISBN-10: 1890085014

ISBN-13: 9781890085018

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jeremy Silman

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Siles Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English



Introduction


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