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Improve Your Chess will help you to improve your technique and master your game. This lively new edition is written by William Hartston, an experienced chess player and daily columnist for the Independent.
It is structured in 75 easy-to-follow lessons, clearly demarcated by level, so that you are challenged throughout. You will get to grips with complex strategy and the meta-principles which rule the relationship between pieces and their co-operation throughout play. All new concepts are demonstrated by illustrated worked examples, and you will get a chance to see these principles borne out in grandmaster play.
NOT GOT MUCH TIME?
One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.
AUTHOR INSIGHTS
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the authors' many years of experience.
TEST YOURSELF
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.
EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of chess
FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER
Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.
TRY THIS
Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
Contents
: introduction
: basic
1: 1 thinking
2: 2 calculation
3: 3 the centre
4: 4 exchanging pieces
5: 5 good bishops and bad bishops
6: 6 bishops and knights
7: 7 pawn to rook three
8: 8 bishop to knight's five
9: 9 castling (1)
10: 10 knights before bishops
11: 11 developing your pieces
12: 12 the fianchetto(1): bishops
13: 13 planning
14: 14 gentlemen, the queen!
15: 15 pawn takes pawn
16: 16 pushing pawns
17: 17 when you find a good move ...
18: 18 isolated pawns
19: 19 backward pawns
20: 20 doubled pawns
21: 21 weak squares
22: 22 rook on the seventh
23: 23 sacrifices
24: 24 hierarchies of thought
25: 25 i go here, he goes there ...
: advanced
26: 26 the good 'bad bishop'
27: 27 opposite coloured bishops
28: 28 the fianchetto (2): the pawn move
29: 29 the wrong rook
30: 30 the centre of gravity
31: 31 critical movements
32: 32 improving your position
33: 33 defending
34: 34 playing in blinkers
35: 35 one move at a time
36: 36 ... with a small advantage to white
37: 37 timing
38: 38 patience
39: 39 castling (2)
40: 40 how to study openings
41: 41 endgame strategy
42: 42 gambits
43: 43 positional sacrifices
44: 44 time to relax
45: 45 playing for a win
45: 45 playing for a win
46: 46 pawn moves
47: 47 learning from losses
48: 48 the art of distraction
49: 49 if in doubt, change sides
50: 50 winning and losing
: mastery
51: 51 the grand plan
52: 52 subgoals
53: 53 judgement or calculation?
54: 54 flexibilty
55: 55 minority attack
56: 56 dialetical materialism
57: 57 material and time
58: 58 planning for the endgame
59: 59 bishops and knights (2)
60: 60 positional dynamics
61: 61 preserving the balance
62: 62 crime and punishment
63: 63 writing and editing
64: 64 throwing salt
65: 65 creativity
66: 66 chaos
67: 67 the bad 'good' bishop
68: 68 luck
69: 69 practicality (1)
70: 70 practicality (2)
71: 71 hedgehogs playing tennis
72: 72 the grammar of chess
73: 73 analysing and playing
74: 74 the meta-rules of strategy
75: 75 offering a draw
