Build Up Your Chess - The Fundamentals
By GM Athur Yusupov
Quali ty Chess | September 2008 | 672 pages | ISBN 978- 1 -906552-0 1 -5 | PDF | 44.5 mb
Amazon Link : http://www.amazon.com/Build-your-Chess-Artur-Yusupov/dp/1906552010
A book for chess players who want to build their skills on solid foundations. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles. Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary Karpov and Kasparov. He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship. In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from current World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.
GM Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary Karpov and Kasparov. He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship. In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from current World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.
CONTENTS
Key to symbols used 4
Preface 5
Introduction 6
1 Mating motifs 8
2 Mating motifs 2 18
3 Basic opening principles 30
4 Simple pawn endings
44
5 Double check 54
6 The value of the pieces 64
7 The discovered attack 74
8 Centralizing the pieces 82
9 Mate in two moves 92
10 The opposition 100
11 The pin 110
12 The double attack 120
13 Realizing a material advantage 128
14 Open files and Outposts 138
15 Combinations 148
16 Queen against pawn 156
17 Stalemate motifs 164
18 Forced variations 172
19 Combinations involving promotion 182
20 Weak points 192
21 Pawn combinations 202
22 The wrong bishop 212
23 Smothered mate 222
24 Gambits 232
Final test 244
Appendices
Index of composers and analysts 252
Index of games 254
Recommended books 262
