Complete Book of Chess Strategy : Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z

by Silman, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9781890085018
• ISBN10: 1890085014
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Silman-James Pr

Summary

An easy-to-understand guide to chess strategy -- conceptual planning -- has always been the amateur's dream. This book makes that dream a reality. This comprehensive guide in dictionary form, the first of its kind, makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength. Each strategic concept is listed alphabetically and followed by a clear, easy-to-absorb explanation accompanied by examples of how this strategy is used in practice. Such great World Champions as Steinitz, Capablanca, Petrosian, Fischer, and Karpov have used these strategies in virtually all of their games. Now you can arm yourself with their weapons. As you incorporate these weapons into your own play, they will enrich your appreciation of the game and lead you to one beautiful victory after another.

Author Biography

International Chess Master Jeremy Silman is a world-class teacher, writer and player who has won the American Open, the National Open and the U.S. Open. The author of thirty-two best-selling chess books, he has also written dozens of articles that have appeared in magazines throughout the world. For the past several years, Mr. Silman has been the coach of the United States delegation to the World Junior Championship, taking his team to Brazil, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary and Spain.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
Symbol Legend	xvii
Chess Notation	xix
PART ONE The Opening	1	(108)
Basic Opening Strategy	3	(1)
Castling	4	(1)
Development	5	(1)
Fianchetto	6	(1)
Opening Systems	7	(94)
Albin Counter Gambit	8	(1)
Alekhine's Defense	9	(1)
Benko Gambit	10	(2)
Bogo-Indian Defense	12	(3)
Boring Opening (Reversed London System)	15	(3)
Botvinnik Formation	18	(2)
Budapest Gambit	20	(2)
Caro-Kann Defense	22	(6)
Center-Counter Defense	28	(2)
Colle Opening	30	(2)
Czech Benoni	32	(1)
Dutch Defense	33	(2)
English Opening	35	(3)
Four Knights Opening	38	(3)
French Defense	41	(2)
Giuoco Piano	43	(2)
Grob	45	(1)
Grunfeld Defense	46	(2)
Hedgehog Formation	48	(2)
King's Gambit	50	(2)
King's Indian Attack	52	(1)
King's Indian Defense	53	(2)
Larsen's Opening	55	(1)
Modern Benoni Defense	56	(1)
Nimzo-Indian Defense	57	(2)
Orangutan	59	(2)
Petroff Defense	61	(2)
Pirc Defense	63	(3)
Queen's Gambit, Chigorin System	66	(2)
Queen's Gambit Accepted	68	(2)
Queen's Gambit Declined	70	(1)
QGD, Capablanca's Freeing Maneuver	71	(1)
QGD, Tarrasch Defense	72	(1)
Queen's Indian Defense	73	(3)
Reti Opening	76	(2)
Ruy Lopez	78	(3)
Scotch Opening	81	(1)
Semi-Slav Defense	82	(2)
Sicilian Defense	84	(7)
Slav Defense	91	(2)
Stonewall Attack	93	(1)
Torre Attack	94	(1)
Trompowski Opening	95	(2)
Two Knights Defense	97	(3)
Veresov Opening	100	(1)
Preparation	101	(2)
Reversed Openings	103	(4)
Opening Quizzes	107	(2)
PART TWO The Middlegame	109	(174)
Attack Against the Enemy King	111	(67)
Castling on Opposite Sides	112	(2)
Castling on the Same Side	114	(2)
Classic Bishop Sacrifice	116	(3)
Combination	119	(2)
Combination Themes	121	(15)
Clearance Sacrifice	121	(1)
Decoy	122	(2)
Deflection	124	(2)
Double Attack	126	(1)
Fork	127	(1)
Pins and Skewers	128	(3)
Windmill	131	(1)
X-Rays	132	(1)
Zwischenzug	133	(3)
King in the Center	136	(3)
Kingside Focal Points	139	(13)
Attack Against h7	139	(3)
Attack Against g7	142	(3)
Attack Against f7	145	(3)
Attack Against g6	148	(1)
Attack Against Dark-Squared Complex on f6, g7 and h6	149	(3)
Mating Net	152	(2)
Mating Patterns	154	(21)
Anastasia's Mate	154	(1)
Back Rank Mate	155	(2)
Blackburne's Mate	157	(1)
Boden's Mate	158	(2)
Damiano's Mate	160	(2)
Greco's Mate	162	(1)
Legal's Mate	163	(1)
Morphy's Mate	164	(1)
Morphy's Concealed Mate	165	(1)
Pillsbury's Mate	165	(2)
Reti's Mate	167	(1)
Rook, Knight and Pawn Mate	168	(1)
Smothered Mate	169	(2)
Two Minor Piece Mate	171	(4)
Sacrifice	175	(2)
Tactical Vision	177	(1)
Blockade	178	(3)
Candidate Moves and Imbalances	181	(2)
Centralization	183	(1)
Closed and Open Positions	184	(4)
Compensation	188	(1)
Counterplay	189	(2)
Defensive Strategy	191	(1)
Entombed Pieces	192	(3)
Initiative	195	(2)
Material Advantage	197	(5)
Minority Attack	202	(4)
Minor Pieces	206	(14)
Battle of the Minor Pieces	208	(3)
Laws of Bishops	211	(4)
Laws of Knights	215	(3)
Two Bishops	218	(1)
Two Knights	219	(1)
Mysterious Rook Moves	220	(2)
Open Files	222	(7)
Alekhine's Gun/Tripling	223	(1)
Doubled Rooks	224	(1)
No Entrance!	225	(1)
Opening a File	226	(1)
The Trading File	227	(1)
Who Owns the File?	228	(1)
Overprotection	229	(2)
Pawn Center	231	(2)
Pawn Chain	233	(2)
Pawn Structure	235	(20)
Backward Pawns	236	(3)
Doubled Pawns	239	(2)
Isolated Pawns	241	(4)
Isolated Pawn Couple	245	(6)
Hanging Pawns	245	(1)
Strategy (White)	246	(2)
Strategy (Black)	248	(2)
Hanging squares	250	(1)
Passed Pawns	251	(2)
Pawn Islands	253	(1)
Tripled Pawns	254	(1)
Pawn Tension	255	(2)
Perpetual Check	257	(2)
Piece Activity	259	(2)
Plan	261	(2)
Principle of Two Weaknesses	263	(2)
Prophylaxis	265	(2)
Queenside Pawn Majority	267	(3)
Queenside Majority Versus Kingside Majority	268	(1)
Queenside Majority Versus Central Majority	269	(1)
Restriction	270	(1)
Space	271	(1)
Squares	272	(1)
Static Versus Dynamic Advantages	273	(3)
Support Points	276	(3)
Trading Pieces	279	(1)
Traps	280	(1)
Middlegame Quizzes	281	(2)
PART THREE The Endgame	283	(50)
Bishop and Wrong Rook Pawn	285	(2)
Cat and Mouse	287	(5)
Exchanging	292	(3)
Minor Pieces in the Endgame	295	(2)
Passed Pawns in the Endgame	297	(5)
Passed Pawns in a Queen Endgame	298	(1)
Pawn Majority and Outside Passed Pawn	299	(1)
Promotion and Underpromotion	300	(2)
Queen and Minor Piece Fights	302	(2)
Stalemate	304	(2)
Using the King	306	(11)
King and Pawn verses King	307	(2)
Opposition	309	(4)
Saving Pawn Moves	313	(1)
Square of the Pawn	314	(1)
Triangulation	315	(2)
Using the Rooks	317	(14)
Active Rook	318	(1)
Lucena Position	319	(2)
Philidor Position	321	(2)
Rooks Behind Passed Pawns	323	(2)
Short and Long Side of the Board	325	(3)
Two Hogs on the Seventh	328	(3)
Endgame Quizzes	331	(2)
PART FOUR Practical Matters	333	(16)
Blunder	335	(3)
Draw Offer	338	(2)
Point Count	340	(3)
Psychology	343	(2)
Time Pressure	345	(2)
Quizzes on Practical Matters	347	(2)
Answers to Quizzes	349