Strategic Play

by Dvoretsky, Mark

• ISBN13: 9783283004187
• ISBN10: 3283004188
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Olms

Summary

This third volume in Mark Dvoretsky's School of Chess Excellence series is devoted to questions of strategy aimed at improving the reader's positional understanding. The author also examines a number of positions that lie on the boundary between the middlegame and the endgame. As in the other books in the series, Dvoretsky uses examples from his own games and those of his pupils as well as episodes from other players' games.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(1)
Part six Positional Play	8	(133)
The logic of a positional battle	9	(10)
Which pawn to advance?	19	(4)
Undermining pawn moves	23	(7)
The blocking of passed pawns	30	(6)
The two bishops	36	(4)
An unusual exchange	40	(6)
Mistakes, mistakes	46	(8)
Advantage in space	54	(8)
Routes for the rook	62	(7)
Don't forget about prophylaxis!	69	(9)
`Mysterious' rook moves	78	(4)
Training with grandmasters	82	(8)
What is meant by a strategic plan?	90	(7)
How a plan is formulated	97	(5)
Clash of plans	102	(7)
The initiative	109	(11)
I seek a win	120	(10)
An `easy' win	130	(7)
Exercises for analysis	137	(4)
Part seven Simple Positions	141	(55)
Attack with a small army	143	(6)
Abundance of possibilities	149	(8)
A memorable loss	157	(7)
When technique lets you down	164	(5)
The scales tipped	169	(5)
A course in tactics	174	(4)
Defend actively!	178	(3)
Failure to take the initiative	181	(5)
Turning points	186	(8)
Exercises for analysis	194	(2)
Solutions to exercises	196	(33)
Appendix
Index of exercises by thinking skills and types of problems to be solved	229	(2)
Index of players	231