Instructive Chess Miniatures
128 Seiten, kartoniert, Gambit, 1. Auflage 2016
Warning: this book is not just entertainment. The author wants to teach you a lot about chess and improve the quality of your play!
He has selected 50 miniatures from throughout chess history – the earliest are from the 1850s, while the most recent are from grandmaster events just a few months ago! A miniature is a decisive game, won in 25 moves or fewer. Most of these 50 games feature brilliant tactics, attacks on the king, and even a few outrageous king-hunts. In many, the winner had to overcome cunning defensive ploys and inventive counterattacks.
But our aim in this book is not just to admire the players’ skill, but to learn how we can play like this in our own games. Chess coach Ataman is keenly focused on the instructive points, explaining which features of the position justified the attacks, and what prompted the critical decisions. Where analysis is given, it is restricted to what it would be realistic for a human to work out at the board.
But why are miniatures so instructive, especially for younger players? It’s because we get to see an idea or plan implemented successfully, in full. Once we understand what players are trying to achieve, we can then appreciate how to oppose these ideas, and the cut-and-thrust typical in modern grandmaster play will make a lot more sense.
Alper Efe Ataman is a FIDE Master from Turkey. He is a chess publisher, author and an experienced trainer, especially at the scholastic level.
| Gewicht | 250 g |
|---|---|
| Hersteller | Gambit |
| Breite | 17,2 cm |
| Höhe | 24,8 cm |
| Medium | Buch |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2016 |
| Autor | Alper Efe Ataman |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Auflage | 1 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1910093887 |
| Seiten | 128 |
| Einband | kartoniert |
005 Symbols
005 Bibliography
006 Foreword
007 Game 1: The Evergreen Game - Anderssen-Dufresne
009 Game 2: Inescapable Pins - Schulten-Morphy
012 Game 3: The Opera Game - Morphy-Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard
013 Game 4: Fury of the Hanging Queen - Reiner-Steinitz
015 Game 5: Bishop or Queen? It Depends... - Knorre-Chigorin
017 Game 6: Potential in a Cramped Position - Colburn-Blackburne
019 Game 7: The Tarrasch Trap - Tarrasch-Marco
021 Game 8: Square-Clearance - Steinitz-Von Bardeleben
023 Game 9: Pawn-Grabbing in the Opening - Mieses-Chigorin
025 Game 10: Rubinstein’s Heritage - Rotlewi-Rubinstein
028 A Similar Game: Aronian-Anand
029 Game 11: Undeveloped Queenside - Roesch-Schlage
031 Game 12: Just Like a Magnet... - Ed.Lasker-Thomas
033 Game 13: When the f-Pawn Marches... - Opo+ensky-Hrdina
035 Game 14: Improving the Pieces - Capablanca-Fonaroff
037 A Similar Game: Navara-M.Ivanov
038 Game 15: A Game of Cat and Mouse - E.Adams-C.Torre
040 Game 16: The Immortal Zugzwang Game - Sämisch-Nimzowitsch
042 Game 17: Once the Tension has been Released - Rubinstein-Hirschbein
045 Game 18: Open Up the Lines! - Glücksberg-Najdorf
047 Game 19: Those Isolated Queen’s Pawns... - Botvinnik-Vidmar
049 Game 20: Safety First! - Smyslov-Kottnauer
051 Game 21: The Double Bishop Sacrifice - Kirilov-Furman
053 Game 22: As Long as the King is Stuck in the Centre... - Spassky-Avtonomov
055 A Similar Case: Gipslis-Darznieks
056 Game 23: Weak Squares - Boleslavsky-Smyslov
058 Game 24: Lack of Development - Soultanbéieff-Dubyna
060 Game 25: When Everything Goes According to Plan - Freeman-Mednis
062 Game 26: Prince Urusov’s Recipe - Neishtadt-Gipslis
064 Game 27: Lining Up on the Third Rank - Nezhmetdinov-Kotkov
066 Game 28: A Bolt from the Blue - Gaisert-I.Zaitsev
068 Game 29: Let’s Bring the King to the Centre! - Taimanov-Polugaevsky
070 Game 30: Fischer’s Provocation - Letelier-Fischer
072 Game 31: Mobilizing the Pawns - Bronstein-Geller
074 Game 32: In the Footsteps of Captain Evans - Fischer-Fine
076 A Similar Motif: Linden-Maczuski
077 Game 33: A Memorable Blockading Tactic - Fischer-Benko
079 Game 34: The Wrong Strategy against Tal - Tal-Tringov
081 Game 35: The Penalty for a Single Bad Move - Geller-Portisch
083 Game 36: An Inspiring Manoeuvre - Rossolimo-Reissmann
086 Game 37: When the Knight Takes the Stage... - Spassky-Petrosian
089 Game 38: Playing with Reversed Colours - Dvoretsky-Damsky
092 Game 39: ‘Chinese Torture’ - Liu Wenzhe-Donner
094 Game 40: Firepower in the Critical Zone - Kasparov-Marjanovic
096 Game 41: Playing à la Petrosian... - Kasparov-Petrosian
098 Game 42: An 11-Year-Old Girl - Costa-J.Polgar
100 Game 43: Opening a Dangerous File - Watson-Meduna
102 Game 44: A Sacrifice to be Proud of - Handke-Murdzia
104 Game 45: Another Fabulous Blocking Idea - J.Polgar-Berkes
106 A Similar Case: Forintos-Zedek
107 Game 46: The Aura of Magnus Carlsen - Hammer-Carlsen
108 Game 47: The Rook’s Breathtaking Performance - Erdogdu - Shanava
111 Game 48: Piece-Play on the Kingside - Howell-Ashton
113 Game 49: The Power of the Zwischenzug - Friedel-De Jong
116 Game 50: A Terrifying (K)nightmare! - Rublevsky-Zude
118 Game 51: A Petroff Classic - Anand-Kasimdzhanov
120 Game 52: The Duel of the Veterans - Cebalo-Vasiukov
122 Game 53: Opera in St. Louis - So-Kasparov
125 Supplementary Games
127 Index of Players
127 Index of Openings
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