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Thinkers Publishing, 2018. — 208 p. — ISBN: 9789492510310. This book is devoted to typical methods of play in the middlegame. This topic, of course, is not new. Many books have been written on it at different times by authors old and modern. Unfortunately, the content of such books is not always error-free, as I have experienced many times. Therefore the emphasis in my book is on...

Quality Chess, 2015. - 392 p. Английский перевод книги: Шехтман Э.И. (сост.) Т.В. Петросян. Стратегия надежности (М.: Физкультура и спорт, 1985). Tigran Petrosian is a titan of chess history. All agree he was a genius of strategy, defense and sacrifice, but didn’t he take too many draws? Possibly so, but when Petrosian selected and annotated his best games, that flaw disappeared,...

New in Chess, 2018. — 680 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-805-7. Видео файлы по этой книге: /file/3072480/; /file/3072473/; /file/3072461/; /file/3072446/; /file/3072438/; /file/3072433/; /file/3072403/ Why is this opening repertoire called simple? For the simple reason that the variations are straightforward and easy to remember, and require little or no maintenance. International...

Thinkers Publishing, 2017. — 228 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-001-3. After his outstanding book from 2008, 'Winning Chess Middlegames', Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov takes us a step further into his dungeon of middlegame skills. In his well known style, Sokolov focuses on the different aspects of the complex middlegame. As usual Ivan breaks new ground and provides us with a variety of...

Thinkers Publishing, 2018. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-020-4. In modern chess practice, the theory of the opening often stretches into the middlegame, sometimes quite deeply. When players choose particular opening variations, they are in essence deciding on the type of middlegame in which they would like to fight their opponents. In this second volume of my "Chess Middlegame...

New In Chess, 2013. — 257 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-431-8. The sacrifice is one of the most beautiful, rewarding and complex aspects of chess. During a game the decision to give up material in order to get an advantage is probably the most difficult one a player has to take. Often, you have to burn your bridges without being able to fully calculate the consequences. Risks and rewards...