Chess Strategy For Club Players - The Road to Positional Advantage (tijdelijk out of stock)

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  • Grooten H.
  • New In Chess
  • 464 blz.
  • Engels
  • 2017
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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:
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  • how to recognize key characteristics in all types of positions
  • how to make use of those characteristics to choose the right plan

His teachings are based on the famous "Elements" of Wilhelm Steinitz, but Grooten has significantly expanded and updated the work of the first World Champion. He supplies many modern examples, tested in his own practice as a coach of talented youngsters. In Chess Strategy for Club Players you will learn the basic elements of positional understanding:
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  • pawn structure
  • piece placement
  • lead in development
  • open files
  • weaknesses
  • space advantage
  • king safety
  • exploiting small advantages.

The author also explains what to do when, in a given position, the basic principles seem to point in different directions. Each chapter of this fundamental primer ends with a set of highly instructive exercises.


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