Everyman Chess, 1996. — 108 p. — ISBN 1-85744-125-7. In this companion volume to his classic 'Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge,' Grandmaster Averbakh takes the reader through the various steps to success in the middlegame. He explains the tactical skills and positional strategies that every chessplayer needs to master. Topics covered include coordinating the pieces, attack...
ModernChess, December 21, 2021. One of the most important positions to learn is those with opposite-coloured bishops. Developing expertise in middlegames with opposite-coloured bishops can be very time-consuming. To do so you can read different manuals about middlegame play; most will have at least a chapter about such positions. There is also useful material on YouTube. You...
Modern Chess, Middlegame Databases, 2019. When the main goal of our play is to checkmate the opponent's king, one of the main ways to achieve this is to reach a material advantage. Every beginner is taught to count pieces and do not allow obviously disadvantageous exchanges (such as rook for bishop or knight for pawn). And while beginners often continue despite large material...
Mongoose Press, 2017. — 445 p. — ISBN: 978-1-936277-77-3. Книга в формате PGN. You're booked up on your openings and know the Philidor and Lucena positions hands down, but how to convert all that theoretical knowledge into points against flesh-and-blood opponents? Jay Bonin, the “Iron Man of Chess,” shares the keys to victory as he's learned them over four decades of competitive...
Выходные данные не указаны. — 2019. File is in ChessBase, PGN format. I recently saw an instructive win by the Indian talent Praggnanandhaa over his countryman Gopal which I would like to share with you. From the game it’s obvious that the youngster has already studied and assimilated a lot of the classical examples that are the backbone of a strong player’s positional...
Everyman Chess, 2009. — 420 p. — ISBN: 9781857445992. Книга в формате PGN. Step-by-step guide to brilliant chess Leading chess author Colin Crouch selects and explains over 30 sensational games, all from the new millennium. By studying battles between the world’s best players, Crouch examines in detail all the key areas of modern chess. Powerful attacking and resourceful...
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...
Second Edition. — Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2013. — 856 p. — ISBN: 978-1-936490-74-5. Книга в формате PGN. What is the point of an Analytical Manual in modern times, where computers using tablebases and the latest analysis engines seem to be capable of solving almost any question? The answer is easy to provide: There is a huge difference between the search for the objective...
Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2016. — 212 p. — ISBN: 978-1-941270-37-0. To a large extent, the level of any chessplayer’s skill depends on his or her ability to discover and evaluate positional operations as quickly and correctly as possible. In this book, premier chess instructor and trainer Mark Dvoretsky examines one of the most important aspects of positional skill, namely the...
Thinkers Publishing, 2017. — 451 p. — ISBN: 9789492510037. Книга в формате PGN. Roman Edouard launches a brand new series of exercise books. In his first volume, he focuses on middlegames. Romain has carefully selected 496 positions, which arose in real games in the recent past. To obtain the best possible training result out of each position, he has separated the exercises...
Chessable, Jun 27, 2018; Thinkers Publishing, 2017. — 451 p. — ISBN: 978-9492510037. Книга в формате PGN. Roman Edouard launches a brand new series of exercise books. In his first volume, he focuses on middlegames. Romain has carefully selected 496 positions, which arose in real games in the recent past. To obtain the best possible training result out of each position, he has...
David McKay, 1952. — 445 p. The Middle Game in Chess by Reuben Fine completes the trilogy between Practical Chess Openings and Basic Chess Endings, both by Fine, so that the three major aspects of chess are discussed. The Middle Game, it has been said, is the heart of chess. Here is the field of battle on which victory or defeat is decided. In this book the world's leading...
Gambit Publications, 2006. — 192 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1-904600-59-6. Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegames to which it leads,...
Elk and Ruby Publishing House, 5/28/2020. — 235 p. — ISBN13: 978-5604177099. Most chess games end in the middlegame. Therefore, to achieve good results, you have to play well at this stage of the game. This middlegame textbook by Grandmaster Alexander Galkin, who was named Children's Trainer of the Year in 2016 by the Russian Chess Federation, and Woman International Master...
Chess Evolution, 2019. — 344 p. — ISBN: 978-615-5793-12-7. With this book I have sought to provide a training guide that will be helpful mostly to players in the 1500–2200 range — corresponding to a lower club level up to those with aspirations for a FIDE title. Of course, the book may well also be useful for players weaker than 1500, or for those stronger than 2200, but this...
Chess Evolution, 2019. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-615-5793-13-4. Volume 2 of the series on Middlegame Planning With this book I have sought to provide a training guide that will be helpful mostly to players in the 1500–2200 range — corresponding to a lower club level up to those with aspirations for a FIDE title. Of course, the book may well also be useful for players weaker than...
London, UK: Everyman Chess, 2011. — 298 p. Книга в формате ChessBase. Lessons with a Grandmaster: Enhance Your Chess Strategy and Psychology with Boris Gulko. By Великолепная книга одного из сильнейших игроков мира 70-80 годов Бориса Гулько "Уроки гроссмейстера" вышла в двух частях. Первая часть посвящена позиционной игре в шахматы, вторая - тактике. Борис Гулько анализирует...
London, UK: Everyman Chess, 2011. — 298 p. Книга в формате PGN. Lessons with a Grandmaster: Enhance Your Chess Strategy and Psychology with Boris Gulko. By Великолепная книга одного из сильнейших игроков мира 70-80 годов Бориса Гулько "Уроки гроссмейстера" вышла в двух частях. Первая часть посвящена позиционной игре в шахматы, вторая - тактике. Борис Гулько анализирует свои...
Ondon, UK: Everyman Chess, 2012. — 304 p. Книга в формате PGN. Lessons with a Grandmaster: Enhance Your Chess Strategy and Psychology with Boris Gulko. Великолепная книга одного из сильнейших игроков мира 70-80 годов Бориса Гулько "Уроки гроссмейстера" вышла в двух частях. Первая часть посвящена позиционной игре в шахматы, вторая - тактике. Борис Гулько анализирует свои партии...
London, UK: Everyman Chess, 2012. — 304 p. Книга в формате ChessBase. Lessons with a Grandmaster: Enhance Your Chess Strategy and Psychology with Boris Gulko. Великолепная книга одного из сильнейших игроков мира 70-80 годов Бориса Гулько "Уроки гроссмейстера" вышла в двух частях. Первая часть посвящена позиционной игре в шахматы, вторая - тактике. Борис Гулько анализирует свои...
London, UK: Everyman Chess, 2015. — 273 p. Книга в формате ChessBase. Lessons with a Grandmaster-3: Enhance Your Chess Strategy and Psychology with Boris Gulko. Третья часть великолепной книги одного из сильнейших игроков мира 70-80 годов Бориса Гулько "Уроки гроссмейстера". Первая часть была посвящена позиционной игре в шахматы, вторая - тактике, а третья же часть...
London, UK: Everyman Chess, 2015. — 273 p. Книга в формате PGN. Lessons with a Grandmaster-3: Enhance Your Chess Strategy and Psychology with Boris Gulko. Третья часть великолепной книги одного из сильнейших игроков мира 70-80 годов Бориса Гулько "Уроки гроссмейстера". Первая часть была посвящена позиционной игре в шахматы, вторая - тактике, а третья же часть рассматривает связь...
Independent, Dec 01, 2017. — 129 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1520258829. Opening preparation in chess is always difficult and a lot of books have been written about this topic. The goal of this book is to illustrate how specific pawn structures should be studied for typical themes even if they arise from different openings. The pawn structure with (typically) White's isolated queen pawn...
Everyman Chess, 2013. — 396 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78194-154-6. Книга в формате PGN. В книге гроссмейстера Михаила Красенкова предлагается более 220 тестовых миттельшпильных позиций. Тесты разбиты на три уровня сложности. Первый из них будет под силу шахматистам уровня второго разряда. С третьим уровнем сложности будет не просто справиться и мастерам. В конце каждого уровня приводится...
Alkmaar: New in Chess, 2025. — 250 p. — ISBN: 978-9083483320. We all love the dynamics of chess. Spectacular sacrifices, combinations and attacks on the king never fail to enchant us. But how do we improve our understanding of dynamics? How can we recognize the ‘dynamic energy’ in a position? When can we turn 2+2 into 5, as the legendary tactician Mikhail Tal could? The answers...
Modern Chess, 2019. With such a quantity of (many of them excellent) books on tactics, one may ask himself whether anything new can be said on this subject. Nevertheless, in many cases, the system of classification used in such books fails to reveal some essential aspects. Sorting the examples according to the central theme of the combination (a system used on most occasions)...
Modern Chess, 2019. The dynamic phase tends to have a global character, with piece and pawn tensions all over the board and with the enemy kings only as a possible collateral victim. It does not have the linear and logical course of a combination and it is hard to anticipate its end. While the accurate calculation is useful, it is usually impossible to exhaust the position...
Thinkers Publishing, 2023. — 496 p. — ISBN: 978-9464201864. The book you have just started reading is about a very interesting and difficult concept: the exchange sacrifice. This is the moment in chess when basic mathematics breaks down, the moment when 3 counts equal to or even more than 5. So let us leave the mathematics aside and try to figure out why this simple calculation...
Quality Chess, 2007. — 215 p. — ISBN13: 978-91-85779-00-0. Книга в формате PGN. Aron Nimzowitsch was one of the world's strongest chess Grandmasters in the early part of the 20th century. He wrote several classic chess books which have been best sellers since the 1920s. His books are highly recommended by chess masters the world over.
New In Chess, 2015. — 615 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-609-1. Книга в формате PGN. Grandmaster Alexander Panchenko (1953-2009) was one of the most successful chess trainers in the Soviet Union, and later in Russia. His legendary chess school specialised in turning promising players into masters. The secrets of Panchenko’s success were his dedication and enthusiasm as a teacher...
Chessable, Courses, Chess Strategy, May 21, 2018; New In Chess, 2015. — 615 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-609-1. Grandmaster Alexander Panchenko (1953-2009) was one of the most successful chess trainers in the Soviet Union, and later in Russia. His legendary chess school specialised in turning promising players into masters. The secrets of Panchenko’s success were his dedication and...
Konemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1998. — 1015 p. — ISBN 3-89508-683-5. This is a superb book for the strong club player to near master and I haven't seen anything like it before. It is a compilation of 4158 positions from master play grouped into 77 different tactical or positional themes. For example, 168 positions of isolated queen pawn play, 108 hedgehog positions, 168...
London: Everyman Chess, 2012. —182 p. — ISBN: 978-1-85744-940-2. Книга в формате PGN. In this book Matthew Sadler shares his secrets and reveals how to incorporate unorthodox openings into your repertoire; how to study middlegame situations and how to understand what is important in the endgame.
Сhessbase, 2003. — ISBN: 978-3-935602-73-1. Winning won positions — who would not like to be able to do that, but has often enough fallen down on the job? For many people it is even the main problem when playing chess: they often have such good positions and nothing comes out of it. What then could be closer to their heart than training to convert winning positions – naturally...
Сhessbase, 2004. — ISBN: 978-3-937549-23-4. File is in PGN format. Gewonnene Stellungen auch zu gewinnen diese beneidenswerte Fähigkeit kann mit den CDs der Serie Fritz-Techniktrainer erworben bzw. verbessert werden. Die Aufgaben dieser CD befassen sich ausschließlich mit dem Schaffen des ersten of. ziellen Weltmeisters: Wilhelm Steinitz. Er hat als Erster die Grundlagen...
ChessBase, 2015. How often have you heard the above advice – coaches exhorting you to study the ABC of chess: games of Alekhine, Botvinnik and Capablanca. But just sitting back and enjoying them does not do much for your own playing strength. In this DVD Sagar Shah tells us how to go about absorbing the classics, as he did, and using the ideas in your own games.Review by IM...
Mongoose Press, 2013. — 606 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-936277-46-9. Книга в формате PGN. Have you ever wished for a “formula” to help you decide what move to make in any given chess position? In this ambitious and groundbreaking work, physicist and chess master Alexander Shashin presents the fruit of three decades of research into the elements of the game. He breaks down the position...
Chess-teacher, 2022. Top 25 Middlegame Concepts is a theoretical and practical course for those who want to take their chess to the next level. In recent months, GM Smirnov has been working on creating a course that serves as a guide for average players so that they can enrich themselves with the most essential concepts that occur in the middlegame. Introduction: The Most...
Thinkers Publishing, 2017. — 228 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-001-3. Книга в формате PGN. 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...
Thinkers Publishing, 2017. — 228 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-001-3. Книга в формате PGN. 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...
Thinkers Publishing, 2017. — 228 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-001-3. Книга в формате PGN. 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...
ChessBase, September 14, 2020. — ISBN: 978-3-86681-713-5. The first volume of Ivan Sokolov showing you Middlegame Strategies. In this DVD we deal with different dynamic decisions involving pawns. The aim of this DVD is to arm club/tournament players with fresh ideas which they can use in their own practice. Minor sacrifices Game 1: Jussupow-Ivanchuk Game 2: Carlsen-Giri Game 3:...
ChessBase, September 14, 2020. — ISBN: 978-3-86681-713-5. The first volume of Ivan Sokolov showing you Middlegame Strategies. In this DVD we deal with different dynamic decisions involving pawns. The aim of this DVD is to arm club/tournament players with fresh ideas which they can use in their own practice. Minor sacrifices Game 1: Jussupow-Ivanchuk Game 2: Carlsen-Giri Game 3:...
ChessBase, September 14, 2020. — ISBN: 978-3-86681-776-0. The second volume of Ivan Sokolov showing you Middlegame Strategies. In this DVD, I have selected the material aiming to improve the viewer’s middlegame decision making process and broaden his/her middlegame understanding in general. What to trade what to keep Game 1: Botvinnik-Donner Game 2: Kasparov-Karpov Game 3:...
ChessBase, September 14, 2020. — ISBN: 978-3-86681-776-0. The second volume of Ivan Sokolov showing you Middlegame Strategies. In this DVD, I have selected the material aiming to improve the viewer’s middlegame decision making process and broaden his/her middlegame understanding in general. What to trade what to keep Game 1: Botvinnik-Donner Game 2: Kasparov-Karpov Game 3:...
ChessBase, March 10, 2022. — ISBN: 978-3-86681-835-4. Isolated pawn structures can obviously come from many different openings. In this video course I have picked up isolated pawn structures coming from the classical Tarrasch defence D34; for which a considerable part was inspired by the games of Garry Kasparov. I believe studying the classical Tarrasch isolated pawn structures...
ChessBase, March 10, 2022. — ISBN: 978-3-86681-835-4. Isolated pawn structures can obviously come from many different openings. In this video course I have picked up isolated pawn structures coming from the classical Tarrasch defence D34; for which a considerable part was inspired by the games of Garry Kasparov. I believe studying the classical Tarrasch isolated pawn structures...
New In Chess, 2004. — 224 p. — ISBN: 90-5691-123-6. According to an Indian saying, the game of chess is a sea in which a mosquito can drink and an elephant can bathe. To which many chess players would surely like to add: ‘And in which it’s very easy to drown in the middle game!’ In contrast to the opening or the endgame, the middle game seems to offer little in the way of...
М.: Библиотека ФШР, 2021. — 384 с. — ISBN: 978-5-906254-82-5. Чемпион мира Магнус Карлсен, отвечая на вопрос о методах совершенствования юных шахматистов, особо подчеркнул: «Одним из наиболее важных умений является распознавание образов: способность увидеть типичные темы и шаблоны на доске, характерные особенности позиции и вытекающие из этого последствия». Развитию именно этих...
Харьков: Фолио, 1997. — 240 с.— (Школа будущих чемпионов 5). — ISBN: 966-03-0256-8 Пятая, заключительная книга серии "Школа будущих чемпионов". Круг проблем, рассматриваемых здесь, очень широк. Тут и техника расчета, и развитие интуиции, и психология принятия решений в условиях напряженной турнирной борьбы, и вновь - атака и защита, и многое, многое другое. Многие проблемы,...
2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — Худож.-оформитель Жуков А.Г. — Х.: Факт, 2002. — 256 с.: илл. — ISBN 966-637-061-1. Книга в формате PGN. «Комбинационная игра» — второй учебник серии «Школа высшего мастерства» заслуженного тренера СССР, России и Грузии Марка Дворецкого для подготовки шахматистов высокого класса. Переработанная, значительно дополненная и исправленная, книга впервые...
М.: Библиотека ФШР, 2019. — 192 с. — ISBN: 978-5-907077-04-1. Новая работа известного гроссмейстера, тренера и теоретика Алексея Дреева посвящена типичным приемам игры в миттельшпиле. Акцент сделан на качестве примеров. Прежде всего автор хотел донести до читателя многообразие ситуаций, с которыми любому практику приходится сталкиваться за доской, иногда в течение одной партии....
Л.: Academia, 1925. — 254 с. Нельзя не удивляться тому поистине странному факту, что середина игры, то есть, наиболее интересная и важная часть шахматной партии, до сих пор почти нисколько не изучена теоретически. В то время, как множество книг посвящены исследованию дебютов, а концы разработаны почти исчерпывающе, любитель оставляется безоружным, бросается на произвол судьбы и...
Под ред. Б. А. Злотника. — М.: Физкультура и спорт, 1985. — 240 с. Книга выдающегося советского гроссмейстера А. Котова посвящена общей теории миттельшпиля. В этом труде освещаются такие вопросы, как позиционная игра, комбинационное чутье, расчет вариантов, переход в эндшпиль, турнирный режим. Каждая глава сопровождается примерами из практики выдающихся шахматистов мира....
Подборка материалов. Выходные данные не указаны. Материал сделан на основе работы Оценка позиции, план, расчет вариантов, выбор хода пользователя vicr с сайта http://chessvdk.ru/forum/index.php. Небольшая подборка от разных авторов. Котов А.А. Выбор хода Интернет Выбор хода, расчет Славин И.Л. Оценка позиции Интернет Выбор плана Чеботарев О.В. Методика оценки позиции Чехов В.А....
М.: Рипол Классик, 2004. — 256 с. — (Искусство шахмат). — ISBN: 5-7905-2365-X. В теоретическом разделе книги первоочередное внимание уделяется технике защиты. Рассмотрены приемы при обороне худших позиций: размен фигур и переход в эндшпиль, борьба с наиболее опасной фигурой, защита наиболее слабых пунктов, улучшение позиции плохо стоящей фигуры, отвлечение противника от...
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