TITLE : Judgement and Planning in Chess
AUTHOR : Max Euwe
PUBLISHER : B.T.Batsford, London
YEAR : 1954/1998
ISBN : 0-7134-8436-5
GENRE : Chess
PAGES : 176 pages
FORMAT : Scanned PDF no OCR, bookmarks & covers.
CONTENTS :
Symbols 5
Foreword by John Nunn 6
Introduction 8
1 First Steps in Judging and Planning 9
2 Pawn Majority on the Queenside 17
3 The Queenside Attack 28
4 Knight against Bad Bishop 43
5 Weakening the King's Defences 59
6 The Attack on the King 73
7 Weak Pawns 91
8 Strong Squares 107
9 Open Files 125
10 Illustrative Games 144
Index of Players 171
Index of Games 173
Index of Openings 175
Index of Endings 176
ABOUT THE BOOK : Often, when a player has a fair understanding of the principles of chess and
can make quite pretty combinations two or three moves deep, he suddenly
notices, as he meets stronger players, that his development seems to have
come to a standstill. He loses games without being able to perceive the cause.
He works out a series of moves as far ahead as he possibly can and then notices
that his opponent has planned and thought in an entirely different direction;
in short, he loses the grip on the game which he had possessed at a
previous stage. He learns opening variations by heart without accurately
knowing why the moves are played, with the result that he finds himself in totally
unfamiliar positions - positions which may well be favourable, although
he has no idea why, nor does he know how to turn them to his advantage.
A new element enters the chess battle at this stage, namely 'positional understanding'
. It does not grow of itself but must be developed by the process
of drawing conclusions in practical play. It represents the increasing ability to
form a judgement on any position whatever, without going into the details of
exact calculation
