Revolutionize Your Chess

by Moskalenko, Viktor

• ISBN13: 9789056912956
• ISBN10: 905691295X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-16
• Publisher: New in Chess

Summary

Most chess players fail to make real progress once they have reached a certain level. They focus on studying openings, classical middlegame tactics, the odd strategic theme and a few rules-of-thumb for the endgame. But when they sit down at the board and face real chess problems they are often clueless. Why is this?

Author Biography

Viktor Moskalenko (1960) is an International Grandmaster, a successful author and a well-known chess coach who has worked with Vasily Ivanchuk. A farmer Ukrainian champion, Moskalenko remains highly active as a player and has won numerous tournaments in his new home country, Spain.

Table of Contents

Foreword: From Static to Dynamic Chess	p. 7
The Moskalenko Test of a Chess Player's Skills	p. 13
Moskalenko's Five Touchstones	p. 21
The Endgame	p. 47
Properties of Pieces, Pawns and Squares (PPPS)	p. 49
King and Pawns	p. 56
The Knight	p. 66
Bishop versus Bishop: Two Colours	p. 70
Bishops versus Knights	p. 81
The Rook	p. 87
The Queen	p. 101
The Middlegame	p. 105
Dynamics in the Middlegame	p. 107
Dynamics of the Isolated Pawn	p. 112
Botvinnik System: Chaos Rules	p. 153
An Early Middlegame: The Bishop Sortie	p. 183
The Trompowsky Attack	p. 183
A Dynamic Set-up vs the London and Torre	p. 194
Time and the Art of Attack	p. 204
The Opening	p. 225
Nimzo-Indian, Sämisch Variation	p. 227
The Sämisch - A Repertoire for White	p. 228
A Trojan Horse in the Nimzo War	p. 263
A Pawn Sacrifice and a Captive Knight	p. 272
The Dutch Defence
An Introduction to the Stonewall	p. 281
Rolling Stones: A Repertoire for Black and for White	p. 305
Strategies and Tactics in the King's Indian Four Pawns Attack	p. 321
My way of writing this book - an Epilogue	p. 349
Bibliography	p. 350
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