Jürgen Kaufeld, Guido Kern

226 Seiten, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2009, deutsch.

The Road to Positional Advantage

Herman Grooten

412 Seiten, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2009, englisch.

Your Tool Kit of Key Concepts and Pawn Structures

Every serious trainer must insist on strategy work, because strategy will be a powerful and probably decisive weapon against players who neglected it in their own chess study. That was my motivation to write this book, to present crucial elements and principles of strategy and to reveal its secrets to you, dear reader. After careful study of the book you will be fully equipped with strategic concepts, patterns and definitely you will catch “how it works” in chess game.

Strategic Ideas and Powerful Weapons

The Pirc Defence and the Modern Defence are two naturally entwined chess openings that are both flexible and rich in strategic and tactical ideas. They feature in the repertoire of great players like Grischuk, Ivanchuk, Nakamura and Carlsen.

In The Perfect Pirc-Modern, Viktor Moskalenko, a renowned propagator of dynamic chess who has championed the Pirc-Modern for many years, explains:

Chess is a strategically deep game and it is no surprise that players often struggle to find the right strategy over the board. Computers may be able to show a good move in a position, but they can’t explain how it should fit into an overall plan.

Today’s young players have benefited greatly from working with chess computers. There is little doubt that advanced software and electronic training programs have significantly contributed to the rise of the standards of play.

But there is a negative side to this. Many young chess players see the computer as the ultimate response to nearly everything. They think that computer analysis is the best and the fastest way to find the truth in any position on the board.

Revised & Expanded by Karsten Müller

Become a Dangerous Tactician!

In the late 1990s five books were released, each dedicated to a unique tactical theme, and each with approximately 100 pages.

Written by the late Russian correspondence master Victor Charushin , the books were:

A modern strategy guide

There is a blank spot in the huge world of chess literature: systematically presented middle- game. Th erefore authors, both long-term chess trainers, decided to fi ll this vacuum. With a series of books about the middle-game, we would like to present diff erent topics of chess tactics and strategy in a slightly diff erent way. Books, which will be published in the coming years as part of the series, are planned to cover all frequently discussed themes, as well as many others topics — those about which chess players and also trainers usually do not think as deeply as they should in order to achieve better results.