Yusupov Artur. Build Up Your Chess 2: Beyond The Basics

Chessable, Courses, Chess Tactics, Oct 07, 2019; Quality Chess, 2008. — 286 p. — ISBN 978-1-906552-10-7.Part two in chess legend Artur Yusupov's acclaimed training camp-style workout course has come to Chessable!The Fundamentals 2: Boost Your Chess is the second installment of what is the ideal self-study series for any aspiring club-level player.Check out part 1 Build Up Your Chess hereYusupov, one of the true greats of the game, guides you as his pupil towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice.A manual for building the foundations of your chess knowledgeThis new understanding is then tested by 476 puzzles reinforcing what you've learned.Yusupov's The Fundamentals is a reworked version of the teaching plan used in his three-year Russian chess school training programme.That methodological programme was later taken over by the Chess Tigers University and is still being used there.Yusupov is the master trainer who possesses a unique ability to distill chess principles for the beginner.Six key areas of the game coveredHis course covers basic knowledge in six areas of the game - tactics, positional play, strategy, the calculation of variations, the opening and the endgame.With a foreword by former world champion Viswanathan Anand, Yusupov's manual is intended a substitute for a formal trainer. It is for players who do not have that support.Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary Karpov and Kasparov. He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship. In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.Winner of the 2009 Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Mark Dvoretsky in 2nd and 3rd place).