Grandmaster Alexander Panchenko (1953-2009) was one of the most successful chess trainers in the Soviet Union, and later in Russia. His legendary chess school specialised in turning promising players into masters.
The secrets of Panchenko’s success were his dedication and enthusiasm as a teacher combined with his outstanding training materials.
Now, his classic Mastering Chess Middlegames is for the first time available in translation, giving club-players around the world access to his unique training method.
The book contains a collection of inspiring lessons on the most important middlegame topics.
In each chapter, Panchenko clearly identifies the fundamentals, formulates easy-to-grasp rules, presents a large number of well-chosen examples and ends with a wealth of practical tests.
The brilliance of Alexander Panchenko’s didactic method shines through in this book.
It is hard to give better advice to ambitious chess players than to follow this tried-and-tested and highly instructive road towards mastering the chess middlegame.
Grandmaster Artyom Timofeev:
“The best theoretical work and practical advice on the subject of the middlegame.”
Content
007 Preface
010 Foreword to the First Edition
012 Chapter 1: The attack on the king
042 Chapter 2: Defence
070 Chapter 3: Counterplay
081 Chapter 4: Prophylaxis
099 Chapter 5: Realising an advantage
128 Chapter 6: Equal positions
138 Chapter 7: The battle of the major pieces
154 Chapter 8: Two minor pieces against a rook
167 Chapter 9: Opposite-coloured bishops with many pieces on the board
177 Chapter 10: Same-coloured bishops
187 Chapter 11: Bishop versus knight
200 Chapter 12: Sample games and endings
214 Solutions
269 Index of Games
The secrets of Panchenko’s success were his dedication and enthusiasm as a teacher combined with his outstanding training materials.
Now, his classic Mastering Chess Middlegames is for the first time available in translation, giving club-players around the world access to his unique training method.
The book contains a collection of inspiring lessons on the most important middlegame topics.
In each chapter, Panchenko clearly identifies the fundamentals, formulates easy-to-grasp rules, presents a large number of well-chosen examples and ends with a wealth of practical tests.
The brilliance of Alexander Panchenko’s didactic method shines through in this book.
It is hard to give better advice to ambitious chess players than to follow this tried-and-tested and highly instructive road towards mastering the chess middlegame.
Grandmaster Artyom Timofeev:
“The best theoretical work and practical advice on the subject of the middlegame.”
Content
007 Preface
010 Foreword to the First Edition
012 Chapter 1: The attack on the king
042 Chapter 2: Defence
070 Chapter 3: Counterplay
081 Chapter 4: Prophylaxis
099 Chapter 5: Realising an advantage
128 Chapter 6: Equal positions
138 Chapter 7: The battle of the major pieces
154 Chapter 8: Two minor pieces against a rook
167 Chapter 9: Opposite-coloured bishops with many pieces on the board
177 Chapter 10: Same-coloured bishops
187 Chapter 11: Bishop versus knight
200 Chapter 12: Sample games and endings
214 Solutions
269 Index of Games