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Boost Your Chess 3: Mastery

Boost Your Chess 3: Mastery

by Artur Yusupov
Boost Your Chess 3: Mastery

Boost Your Chess 3: Mastery

by Artur Yusupov

Overview

Artur Yusupov’s complete course of chess training stretches to nine volumes, guiding the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles.

The course is structured in three series with three levels. The Fundamentals level is the easiest one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players.

The various topics – Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, Endgames, Calculating Variations, and Openings – are spread evenly across the nine volumes, giving readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books.

This book is the second volume at the Mastery level.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781784831714
Publisher: Quality Chess
Publication date: 04/15/2022
Series: Yusupov's Chess School
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.76(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

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 World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.

Table of Contents

Key to symbols used 4

Preface 5

Introduction 6

1 Attacking the king in the centre 8

2 Realizing an advantage 20

3 Counterplay 34

4 Knight endings 46

5 The English Opening 60

6 Hanging pawns on c3-d4 74

7 Counter-attack 88

8 Rook against pawn 100

9 The technique of calculating variations 108

10 The Reti Opening 118

11 The passed pawn in the middlegame 130

12 Prophylactic thinking 144

13 Bishop against knight 158

14 Defence 170

15 Candidate moves 182

16 Combinational vision 192

17 The King's Indian Defence 202

18 Queenside pawn majority 218

19 Central pawn majority 232

20 Pawn storms 244

21 The initiative 258

22 The Grünfeld Defence 272

23 The elimination method 286

24 Knight against bishop 298

Final test 309

Index of composers 320

Index of games 321

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