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- Chess Strategy For Club Players - The Road to Positional Advantage
Chess Strategy For Club Players - The Road to Positional Advantage
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- Grooten H.
- New In Chess
- 464 blz.
- Engels
- 2017
This new 3rd edition has, besides a various corrections and improvements, a new introduction and a brand-new chapter called ‘Total Control’. In this 35-page chapter Grooten adds the final instructive brick to his formidable building: inspired by Tigran Petrosian’s playing style he explains amateurs how to exploit small advantages. With a new set of exercises.
Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what?
First find the right plan, then the good moves will follow!
With this book, International Master Herman Grooten presents to amateur players a complete and structured course on:
Content
007 Foreword by Jan Timman
008 Preface
011 Chapter 1: Steinitz's Elements
023 Chapter 2: The eye of the grandmaster
036 Chapter 3: Thought process and line of thinking
051 Chapter 4: Material advantage
069 Chapter 5: Weakened king position
083 Chapter 6: Passed pawn
102 Chapter 7: Weak pawns
114 Chapter 8: Training experiment
128 Chapter 9: Strong and weak squares
149 Chapter 10: The pawn islands theory
163 Chapter 11: The pawn centre
182 Chapter 12: The diagonal
208 Chapter 13: Quiz: strong square
213 Chapter 14: The open file
228 Chapter 15: The bishop pair
241 Chapter 16: Control of a rank
255 Chapter 17: A piece out of play
270 Chapter 18: Quiz: open file
274 Chapter 19: Harmony and coordination
289 Chapter 20: Lead in development
308 Chapter 21: Centralization
320 Chapter 22: Space advantage
337 Chapter 23: Quiz: space advantage
341 Chapter 24: Total control
376 Chapter 25: Solutions
450 Chapter 26: Epilogue
455 Bibliography
457 About the author
459 Index of Names
Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what?
First find the right plan, then the good moves will follow!
With this book, International Master Herman Grooten presents to amateur players a complete and structured course on:
- how to recognize key characteristics in all types of positions
- how to make use of those characteristics to choose the right plan
- pawn structure
- piece placement
- lead in development
- open files
- weaknesses
- space advantage
- king safety
- exploiting small advantages.
Content
007 Foreword by Jan Timman
008 Preface
011 Chapter 1: Steinitz's Elements
023 Chapter 2: The eye of the grandmaster
036 Chapter 3: Thought process and line of thinking
051 Chapter 4: Material advantage
069 Chapter 5: Weakened king position
083 Chapter 6: Passed pawn
102 Chapter 7: Weak pawns
114 Chapter 8: Training experiment
128 Chapter 9: Strong and weak squares
149 Chapter 10: The pawn islands theory
163 Chapter 11: The pawn centre
182 Chapter 12: The diagonal
208 Chapter 13: Quiz: strong square
213 Chapter 14: The open file
228 Chapter 15: The bishop pair
241 Chapter 16: Control of a rank
255 Chapter 17: A piece out of play
270 Chapter 18: Quiz: open file
274 Chapter 19: Harmony and coordination
289 Chapter 20: Lead in development
308 Chapter 21: Centralization
320 Chapter 22: Space advantage
337 Chapter 23: Quiz: space advantage
341 Chapter 24: Total control
376 Chapter 25: Solutions
450 Chapter 26: Epilogue
455 Bibliography
457 About the author
459 Index of Names