Der Kurs umfasst aber nicht nur Taktikmotive, sondern führt auch in die Schachstrategie ein, die ja oft erst die Anwendung von Taktik herbeiführt. Der Leser erhält eine leichtverständliche Einführung in die wichtigsten Elemente der Strategie: Schwache Felder, rückständige und isolierte Bauern, Doppelbauern, Bauernstrukturen, Bauerndurchbruch, Vorposten, offene Linien und wie man solche schafft, die das Eindringen in die gegnerische Stellung ermöglichen. Besonders der Angriff von Turm oder Türmen auf der 7. oder 8. Reihe ist die Schnittstelle von Taktik und Strategie und wird ausführlich erklärt und mit Aufgaben vertieft.

Diese Verbindung von Taktik und Strategie unterscheidet das Buch von üblichen Taktik-Trainingsbüchern. Der Leser erhält so einen Schnellkurs in die strategischen Elemente, die Nimzowitsch in seinem berühmten Buch "Mein System" formuliert hat und die jeder Schachfreund kennen sollte, der erfolgreich spielen möchte.

Lösungsdiagramme zu allen Aufgaben machen es selbst weniger Geübten leicht, fast alles bequem vom Blatt zu lösen oder zu verfolgen. Im Text wie in den Lösungen erhält der Leser viele nützliche Ratschläge für sein Spiel und unter anderem auch zur Analyse seiner Partien.

313 Seiten, deutsch, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2022

Chessplayers are fascinated by kingwalks, perhaps because of their inherent contradiction and even implausibility. The most important – and vulnerable – chess piece does something other than trying to remain safe.

Topics include: Kingwalks to Prepare an Attack; Kingwalks in Anticipation of an Endgame; Kingwalks to Defend Key Points; Kingwalks to Attack Key Points or Pieces; Mating Attacks; Escaping to Safety Across the Board; Escaping to Safety Up the Board; Kingwalks in the Opening; Kingwalks in the Endgame; Double Kingwalks; and Unsuccessful Kingwalks.

For sheer entertainment as well as instructive value, the kingwalk is transcendent!

Executing a successful kingwalk has the power to make a chessplayer happy and the same can be said about playing over the many beautiful examples in this book. Enjoy!

– From the Foreword by Hans Ree

American grandmaster Yasser Seirawan is a four-time U.S. champion. He also won the World Junior Championship in 1979. He is one of the best-selling chess authors and is considered one of the top commentators for games broadcast on the web.

Canadian master Bruce Harper has been champion of British Columbia many times and has also participated in several Canadian championships. He is the co-author with Yasser Seirawan of the highly acclaimed three-volume series, Chess on the Edge, chronicling the career of Canadian grandmaster Duncan Suttles. He is also co-author, with American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, of Bullet Chess: One Minute to Mate.

288 Seiten, kartoniert, englisch, 1. Auflage 2021

Your Chess Battle Plan focuses on how Magnus Carlsen and other great masters decide on the best strategy in a position and then find the right ways to implement it. Clear advice shows you how to hone in on the most relevant features of a position in order to decide what your general plan needs to be. Factors that are addressed include when to exchange pieces, when to make long-range manoeuvres, when to offer sacrifices and how to identify and focus on key squares. Your Chess Battle Plan will get you thinking along the right strategic lines and using your pieces and pawns in a much more efficient and skilful manner.

• A complete self-improvement programme.
• Advice to evaluate the current level of planning in your own games.
• Utilizes a structured approach, making the most of your study time.

Author

Neil McDonald became a grandmaster in 1996 and a FIDE trainer in 2017. He is a regular coach of the England Junior team at international events. Neil has written numerous books on openings, endgames, tactics and strategy as well as biographies of famous players. He lives in Gravesend in Kent, England.

318 Seiten, englisch, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2020

The focus should be on understanding strategical concepts, principles and underlying logic. Fashionable opening lines will be forgotten (or re-evaluated) sooner or later, but understanding cannot be lost, and can be only upgraded. It is sad to see some players that are well equipped with opening lines, who are unable to realise a big positional advantage in an endgame. So, our advice is to concentrate on Strategy and Logic.

This book is highly recommended for club players, advanced players and masters, although even higher rated players may also find it useful. There is no doubt that lower rated players will learn a lot about thinking processes and decision making, while some logical principles can be put to use by more advanced players too.

The reader may ask: Why those games? The games presented in this book cannot be classified as the "best ever" (of course, such a classification is subjective). However, each game was chosen for its logic and instructive value. Of course, the author understands that readers´ opinion may differ. Either way, the games are useful for exploring many important points: How to evaluate a position and choose an appropriate plan? Where to attack? When to attack? When to exchange? How to realise an advantage?? Learning how to answer such important questions during your future games will improve your chess knowledge and technique considerably.
Always try and introduce logic into your games - you will be delighted with the results!

The author also chose some instructive games with the idea to illustrate some psychologically important moments in chess such as the counter-attack, zeitnot or realisation.

The games are separated into chapters, each focusing on a topic. This should facilitate the reader?s navigation through the book.

504 Seiten, englisch, kartoniert, 

Sam Shankland is a world-class Grandmaster and a mainstay of the US national team. He won the 2018 US Championship and is a double Olympiad gold medallist with a 2700+ rating.

360 Seiten, englisch, gebunden, 1. Auflage 2019

Forcing Chess Moves proposes a revolutionary method for finding winning moves. Charles Hertan has made an astonishing discovery: the failure to consider key moves is often due to human bias. Your brain tends to disregard many winning moves because they are counter-intuitive or look unnatural.

It’s a fact of life: computers outdo us humans when it comes to tactical vision and brute force calculation. So why not learn from them? Charles Hertan’s radically different approach is: use COMPUTER EYES and always look for the most forcing move first.

By studying forcing sequences according to Hertan’s method you will:

• Develop analytical precision
• Improve your tactical vision
• Overcome human bias and staleness
• Enjoy the calculation of difficult positions
• Win more games by recognizing moves that matter.

This New and Extended Fourth Edition of Hertan’s award-winning modern classic includes 50 extra pages with new and instructive combinations. There is a foreword by three-time US chess champion Joel Benjamin, and a special foreword to this new edition by Swedish Grandmaster Pontus Carlsson.

432 Seiten, englisch, kartoniert, 4. erweiterte Auflage 2019

Die Autoren

GM Jörg Hickl , Internationaler Großmeister seit 1988, spielte nahezu einhundert Mal für die deutsche Nationalmannschaft. Neben diversen Deutschen Mannschafts­meistertiteln gewann er 1998 die Deutsche Einzelmeisterschaft. In den letzten Jahren widmet er sich verstärkt der Durchführung von Schachreisen und dem Training von Vereinsspielern.

IM Dr. Erik Zude , Internationaler Meister seit 2006, gewann 1989 die hessische Einzelmeisterschaft sowie zahlreiche Einzel- und Mannschaftstitel auf Landesebene. Er spielt für den SV Hofheim in der Bundesliga.

Uwe Schupp war Mitglied des von GM Ludek Pachmann gegründeten Schach-Leistungszentrums in Altensteig/Schwarzwald und wurde u. a. mehrmaliger deutscher Schulschachmannschafts-meister. Er arbeitet als Finanzanalyst in einer deutschen Großbank in Frankfurt.

183 Seiten, deutsch, kartoniert, 2. Auflage 2018

In The Science of Strategy , Alexander Kotov takes a methodical approach to this mysterious subject, breaking it down into clear themes. He starts with the crucial role of the pawn in chess, before systematically discussing a series of key strategic elements to complete the overall picture. Finally, building on what has gone before, one of the most difficult aspects of chess is discussed: the ability to evaluate a position and conceive a plan on the basis of this evaluation.

Kotov’s clear and methodical style makes this book an ideal guide to chess strategy. He describes the chess in words rather than relying overmuch on variations, and illustrates his ideas in insightfully annotated positional games, with the likes of Alekhine, Botvinnik and Karpov featuring heavily.

Alexander Kotov was a formidable grandmaster of the Soviet school. He was the 1948 Soviet Champion (jointly with Bronstein), and a member of the USSR gold-medal-winning team at the 1952 and 1954 Olympiads. He is also renowned as a chess author, most famously for Think Like a Grandmaster.

240 Seiten, englisch, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2019

In The Science of Strategy, Alexander Kotov takes a methodical approach to this mysterious subject, breaking it down into clear themes. He starts with the crucial role of the pawn in chess, before systematically discussing a series of key strategic elements to complete the overall picture. Finally, building on what has gone before, one of the most difficult aspects of chess is discussed: the ability to evaluate a position and conceive a plan on the basis of this evaluation.

Kotov’s clear and methodical style makes this book an ideal guide to chess strategy. He describes the chess in words rather than relying overmuch on variations, and illustrates his ideas in insightfully annotated positional games, with the likes of Alekhine, Botvinnik and Karpov featuring heavily.

Alexander Kotov was a formidable grandmaster of the Soviet school. He was the 1948 Soviet Champion (jointly with Bronstein), and a member of the USSR gold-medal-winning team at the 1952 and 1954 Olympiads. He is also renowned as a chess author, most famously for Think Like a Grandmaster.

240 Seiten, englisch, gebunden, 1. Auflage 2019

International Master and experienced chess trainer Thomas Willemze is the handyman you are looking for. He tells you which are the most urgent problems that need fixing. In his no-nonsense guide, Willemze presents essential techniques on how to mobilize your pieces in order to gain the upper hand.

The Chess Toolbox teaches you how to:

• conquer an open file
• eliminate an important defender
• lift a blockade
• get rid of an inferior piece
• exploit the 7th rank
• simplify your position (why and how)
• fight for entrance squares

and much more.

In order to make you feel comfortable and let you get used to these essential techniques, the author gives lots of fascinating examples and hundreds of instructive exercises. He even teaches you how to think outside your toolbox!

Thomas Willemze is an International Master from Holland. He is an experienced trainer of amateur players and has been the National Youth Coach of the Dutch Chess Federation.

400 Seiten, englisch, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2018