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Winning chess strategies / Yasser Seirawan, with Jeremy Silman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Everyman chessPublication details: London : Gloucester Publishers ; Guilford, CT : Distributed in North America by the Globe Pequot Press, 2005.Edition: Rev. edDescription: 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1857443853
  • 9781857443851
Subject(s):
Incomplete contents:
The importance of strategy -- Making the most of a material advantage -- Stopping enemy counterplay -- Understanding where the pieces go -- Superior minor pieces -- How to use pawns -- The creation of targets -- Territorial domination -- Attacking the king -- Faulty strategies -- The great masters of strategy -- Solutions to tests.
Summary: Provides an overview of proven chess principles that teaches players how to deploy their pieces using the right moves at the right time to build small advantages into effective, long range strategies.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 794.12 S461 Available 33111008979052
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Readers will gain the advantage over their opponents with easy-to-remember strategies from one of the world's top chess players!

Strategy--it's the ultimate secret weapon for championship players around the world. Drawing on his considerable experience in tournament play, International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan shows players how to apply flexible strategic principles to every part of their game. Using Seirawan's simple and effective planning and analysis techniques, they will enter each game with confidence and energy, ready to play forcefully and intelligently--the way they need to play so they can win every time!

Learn to:
> Knock opponents off balance with bold opening moves
> Formulate an overall game strategy before the middle game
> Interpret the motivation behind an opponent's every move
> Position for a winning endgame

Diagrams throughout the book illustrate game positions, and readers wi'll meet history's greatest chess strategies--learning from them move by move!

Whether for reference during practice games or simply for pleasure reading, Winning Chess Strategies is an information packed resource players will turn to again and again.

"Proven principles from one of the world's top chess players"--Cover.

Includes index.

The importance of strategy -- Making the most of a material advantage -- Stopping enemy counterplay -- Understanding where the pieces go -- Superior minor pieces -- How to use pawns -- The creation of targets -- Territorial domination -- Attacking the king -- Faulty strategies -- The great masters of strategy -- Solutions to tests.

Provides an overview of proven chess principles that teaches players how to deploy their pieces using the right moves at the right time to build small advantages into effective, long range strategies.

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