Giddins Steve. The New In Chess Book of Chess Improvement

New In Chess, 2017. — 576 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-717-3.Masterclasses by Kasparov, Carlsen, Tal, Anand, Kramnik, Ivanchuk, Smyslov, Larsen, Karpov and many others For more than three decades, every issue of New In Chess magazine has been full of detailed and highly enlightening annotations by the world’s best players of their own best games.
Because studying well-annotated master games is the best way to learn the skills that really matter, acclaimed chess author Steve Giddins has revisited the New In Chess vault and assembled the clearest and most didactic examples.
Giddins’ selection includes masterclasses by no fewer than eight World Champions: Kasparov, Tal, Smyslov, Karpov, Kramnik, Topalov, Anand and Carlsen. But also chess legends such as Larsen, Kortchnoi, Timman, Ivanchuk, Short, Aronian and Shirov have contributed.
The New In Chess Book of Chess Improvement is a treasure trove of study material and has chapters on attack and defence, sacrifices, material imbalances, pawn structures, endgames and various positional themes.
It provides the high standard of instructional material that today’s club player, much stronger than his equivalent 25 or more years ago, needs.
Steve Giddins is a Fide Master from England, and a highly experienced chess writer and journalist.Attacking the king
Attacking the king in the centre
Opposite castling
Castling on the same side
Defence
Sacrifices and material imbalance
Material is roughly level
The positional sacriface
Pawn structures
Carlsbad
Isolated Queen pawn (IQP) structures
Hanging pawns
Doubled pawns
Specific pawn structures
Stonewall
... e7-e5 Sicilian
Hedgehog
King's Indian Defence
Spanish (Ruy Lopez)
Catalan
Queen's Gambit Declined
Benoni
Benko Gambit
Sundry positional themes
Space advantage
Weak colour complex
Excluding enemy pieces from the action
Opposite-coloured bishops in the middlegame
Endgame themes
Knight endings
Bishop endings
Bishop versus knight endings
Rook endings
Queen endings
Berlin wall