Secrets of Chess Tactics / 20.03. reprint consider
288 Seiten, kartoniert, Batsford Chess, 1. Auflage 1995
Mark Dvoretsky has the secret of turning talented players into champions. His students include two world title candidates, Sergei Dolmatov and Artur Yusupov. With the benefit of Dvoretsky's original training methods, Yusupov has qualified for the semi-finals on no less than three occasions. For those of us who aren't fortunate enough to have Dvoretsky as a personal coach, this book is the ideal substitute, containing the distillation of his great many years of teaching experience.
Secrets of Chess Tactics concentrates on practical themes which are likely to occur in your own games. It deals with the essential ideas of tactical combinations, and with attack and defence. At every stage there are questions and tests which enable the reader to discover their own tactical strengths and weaknesses.
Mark Dvoretsky has the secret of turning talented players into champions. His students include two world title candidates, Sergei Dolmatov and Artur Yusupov. With the benefit of Dvoretsky's original training methods, Yusupov has qualified for the semi-finals on no less than three occasions. For those of us who aren't fortunate enough to have Dvoretsky as a personal coach, this book is the ideal substitute, containing the distillation of his great many years of teaching experience.
Secrets of Chess Tactics concentrates on practical themes which are likely to occur in your own games. It deals with the essential ideas of tactical combinations, and with attack and defence. At every stage there are questions and tests which enable the reader to discover their own tactical strengths and weaknesses.
| Hersteller | Batsford Chess |
|---|---|
| Medium | Buch |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1995 |
| Autor | Mark Dworetski |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Auflage | 1 |
| ISBN-10 | 0713470933 |
| Seiten | 288 |
| Einband | kartoniert |
| Diagramme | 256 |
vii Preface
1 1 Combinations and the Calculation of Variations
2 Combinational Vision
11 Sunspots
15 Twin Combinations
19 Prompting
22 Candidate Moves
32 Paying Attention to the Opponent's Possibilities
36 The Method of Exclusion
42 The Double Attack
47 The Trapped Piece
51 The Strength of the Passed Pawn
55 Don't Let your King get in the way of a Combination!
58 You Learn by your Mistakes!
64 Look Out - It's a Trap!
67 Logic or Intuition?
73 The Examination of Exercises
81 Does the Problem Have a Solution?
84 How Many Roads Lead to Rome?
88 "Difficult to Teach - Easy to Do!"
94 Combinations which are Impossible to Find
100 A Game Played Several Times Over
108 Practice in Playing-Out
113 Exercises for Analysis
2 115 Attack and Defence
116 Sacrifice or Oversight?
120 "Not all that Glisters is Gold!"
124 Ten Years On
127 Twenty Years On
131 Giving Up a Pawn to Prevent Castling
134 Was the Attack Irresistible?
138 Is there such a thing as an 'Ideal Style'?
147 Science Fiction?
155 Winning in Romantic Style
160 Two Attacking Games by Rainer Knaak
163 Dzhin Attacks!
167 The Decisive Game
173 The Spectators went wild with Delight
185 A Chink in the Armour
188 The Psychology of Defence
195 Into the Eye of the Storm!
203 Bluff!
206 On the Edge of a Precipice
214 Positional Exchange Sacrifices
218 Two 'French' Endgames
222 It's Better to Give Up a Pawn ...
227 Form your Own Opinion
239 Exercises for Analysis
241 Solutions to Analytical Exercises
274 Index to Questions and Exercises