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The Center - A Modern Strategy Guide
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- Mikhalchishin A. & Mohr G.
- Chess Evolution
- 276 blz.
- Engels
- 2017
There is a blank spot in the huge world of chess literature: systematically presented middle- game. Th erefore authors, both long-term chess trainers, decided to fi ll this vacuum. With a series of books about the middle-game, we would like to present diff erent topics of chess tactics and strategy in a slightly diff erent way. Books, which will be published in the coming years as part of the series, are planned to cover all frequently discussed themes, as well as many others topics — those about which chess players and also trainers usually do not think as deeply as they should in order to achieve better results.
We are starting our series with a book about the centre. We will take two diff erent approaches to this topic: the classical one, which will help us to discover all fundamental knowledge about the centre. Th is study is crucial for good understanding of chess. Th e second approach is more modern: we will think about the centre more dynamically, through the eyes of a grandmaster, a practical chess player. We will try to copy this two-part structure in the future books, in which planning, analysing, move decisions, pawn structures and various other topics will be discussed.
Content
003 TABLE OF CONTENTS
005 KEY TO SYMBOLS
007 FOREWORD
009 THE CENTER — BASICS
015 ABOUT STRATEGIC PLAY IN THE CENTER
015 Ignoring the center
017 Weak squares in the center
020 The weak square as a trump!
022 Complete control over the center
023 Exchanges in the center
027 The blockade of the center with the pieces
031 THE TYPES OF CENTERS
031 The mobile center
031 Ignoring the mobile center
032 The domination of the mobile center
034 A feeling for time
036 Passed pawns in the center
040 The defensive play
041 The pressure and the blockade
043 The tactical fight against the center
044 The undermining of the mobile center
046 The c6– e6 pawns against the d4-e4 pawns
051 The d4-e4 pawn against the e6 pawn
055 The tactical game — the e4-e5 (...e5-e4) move
058 The conclusion
059 THE SYMMETRICAL CENTER
059 The initiative on the queenside and the transposition to the endgame
066 The outpost on e5 (e4)
068 The counterplay
071 THE OPEN CENTER
074 Provoking the weakness
075 The attack on the king
079 The defence of the open center
081 The planned opening of the play
085 THE CLOSED (BLOCKED) CENTER
088 Attack the blocked center with pawns
091 Questions about the King’s Indian Defence
096 The attack with brute force
099 THE STATIC CENTER
099 Positions with an isolated pawn
100 Playing against the isolated pawn
102 The attack on the kingside
105 The d4-d5 break
109 The attack on the queenside
111 The battle against the c-pawn
115 The Carlsbad structure
116 The minority attack
127 The advance in the center
137 THE DYNAMIC CENTER
138 Active play in the center: the advance of the pawns!
145 DYNAMICS OF THE CENTER
145 Power of the center
158 Control of the center with the pieces
164 Weak squares in the opponents camp
169 Creation of the passed pawn
178 Pawn sacrifices in the center
182 Flank strategies against the center
191 Destroying the opponents center
213 Changing the structure of the center — closing the center
226 Blockade of the center
235 Doubled pawns in the center
249 Changing the central structure
256 Typical changes of the structure
We are starting our series with a book about the centre. We will take two diff erent approaches to this topic: the classical one, which will help us to discover all fundamental knowledge about the centre. Th is study is crucial for good understanding of chess. Th e second approach is more modern: we will think about the centre more dynamically, through the eyes of a grandmaster, a practical chess player. We will try to copy this two-part structure in the future books, in which planning, analysing, move decisions, pawn structures and various other topics will be discussed.
Content
003 TABLE OF CONTENTS
005 KEY TO SYMBOLS
007 FOREWORD
009 THE CENTER — BASICS
015 ABOUT STRATEGIC PLAY IN THE CENTER
015 Ignoring the center
017 Weak squares in the center
020 The weak square as a trump!
022 Complete control over the center
023 Exchanges in the center
027 The blockade of the center with the pieces
031 THE TYPES OF CENTERS
031 The mobile center
031 Ignoring the mobile center
032 The domination of the mobile center
034 A feeling for time
036 Passed pawns in the center
040 The defensive play
041 The pressure and the blockade
043 The tactical fight against the center
044 The undermining of the mobile center
046 The c6– e6 pawns against the d4-e4 pawns
051 The d4-e4 pawn against the e6 pawn
055 The tactical game — the e4-e5 (...e5-e4) move
058 The conclusion
059 THE SYMMETRICAL CENTER
059 The initiative on the queenside and the transposition to the endgame
066 The outpost on e5 (e4)
068 The counterplay
071 THE OPEN CENTER
074 Provoking the weakness
075 The attack on the king
079 The defence of the open center
081 The planned opening of the play
085 THE CLOSED (BLOCKED) CENTER
088 Attack the blocked center with pawns
091 Questions about the King’s Indian Defence
096 The attack with brute force
099 THE STATIC CENTER
099 Positions with an isolated pawn
100 Playing against the isolated pawn
102 The attack on the kingside
105 The d4-d5 break
109 The attack on the queenside
111 The battle against the c-pawn
115 The Carlsbad structure
116 The minority attack
127 The advance in the center
137 THE DYNAMIC CENTER
138 Active play in the center: the advance of the pawns!
145 DYNAMICS OF THE CENTER
145 Power of the center
158 Control of the center with the pieces
164 Weak squares in the opponents camp
169 Creation of the passed pawn
178 Pawn sacrifices in the center
182 Flank strategies against the center
191 Destroying the opponents center
213 Changing the structure of the center — closing the center
226 Blockade of the center
235 Doubled pawns in the center
249 Changing the central structure
256 Typical changes of the structure