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Subject(s)

• Chess—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Chess—Openings—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Chess—Middle games—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Chess—End games—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]

Summary note

• The Complete Book of Chess Strategy is an amateur's dream come true! Due to the overwhelming amount of strategic and tactical ideas in chess, students of the game buy dozens of chess books but still find it impossible to isolate the key points. Seeing the problems his students faced, Mr. Silman has created the first comprehensive strategic guide in dictionary form. Now all aspects of chess strategy, tactics, basic opening and endgame ideas, and even psychology are painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength. Each concept is listed alphabetically, accompanied by a clear, easy-to-absorb explanation and an example.
• Studying has never been easier! Take this book to work, on vacation or, if you're a serious competitive player, to all your tournaments. The world's best players make regular use of this information. With everything presented in simple, easy-to-understand language, Grandmaster techniques can finally become your techniques too.

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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Symbol Legend
• Chess Notation
• The Opening
• Basic Opening Strategy
• Castling
• Development
• Fianchetto
• Opening Systems
• Albin Counter Gambit
• Alekhine's Defense
• Benko Gambit
• Bogo-Indian Defense
• Boring Opening (Reversed London System)
• Botvinnik Formation
• Budapest Gambit
• Caro-Kann Defense
• Center-Counter Defense
• Colle Opening
• Czech Benoni
• Dutch Defense
• English Opening
• Four Knights Opening
• French Defense
• Giuoco Piano
• Grob
• Grunfeld Defense
• Hedgehog Formation
• King's Gambit
• King's Indian Attack
• King's Indian Defense
• Larsen's Opening
• Modern Benoni Defense
• Nimzo-Indian Defense
• Orangutan
• Petroff Defense
• Pirc Defense
• Queen's Gambit, Chigorin System
• Queen's Gambit Accepted
• Queen's Gambit Declined
• QGD, Capablanca's Freeing Maneuver
• QGD, Tarrasch Defense
• Queen's Indian Defense
• Reti Opening
• Ruy Lopez
• Scotch Opening
• Semi-Slav Defense
• Sicilian Defense
• Slav Defense
• Stonewall Attack
• Torre Attack
• Trompowski Opening
• Two Knights Defense
• Veresov Opening
• Preparation
• Reversed Openings
• Opening Quizzes
• The Middlegame
• Attack Against the Enemy King
• Castling on Opposite Sides
• Castling on the Same Side
• Classic Bishop Sacrifice
• Combination
• Combination Themes
• Clearance Sacrifice
• Decoy
• Deflection
• Double Attack
• Fork
• Pins and Skewers
• Windmill
• X-Rays
• Zwischenzug
• King in the Center
• Kingside Focal Points
• Attack Against h7
• Attack Against g7
• Attack Against f7
• Attack Against g6
• Attack Against Dark-Squared Complex on f6, g7 and h6
• Mating Net
• Mating Patterns
• Anastasia's Mate
• Back Rank Mate
• Blackburne's Mate
• Boden's Mate
• Damiano's Mate
• Greco's Mate
• Legal's Mate
• Morphy's Mate
• Morphy's Concealed Mate
• Pillsbury's Mate
• Reti's Mate
• Rook, Knight and Pawn Mate
• Smothered Mate
• Two Minor Piece Mate
• Sacrifice
• Tactical Vision
• Blockade
• Candidate Moves and Imbalances
• Centralization
• Closed and Open Positions
• Compensation
• Counterplay
• Defensive Strategy
• Entombed Pieces
• Initiative
• Material Advantage
• Minority Attack
• Minor Pieces
• Battle of the Minor Pieces
• Laws of Bishops
• Laws of Knights
• Two Bishops
• Two Knights
• Mysterious Rook Moves
• Open Files
• Alekhine's Gun/Tripling
• Doubled Rooks
• No Entrance!
• Opening a File
• The Trading File
• Who Owns the File?
• Overprotection
• Pawn Center
• Pawn Chain
• Pawn Structure
• Backward Pawns
• Doubled Pawns
• Isolated Pawns
• Isolated Pawn Couple
• Hanging Pawns
• Strategy (White)
• Strategy (Black)
• Hanging squares
• Passed Pawns
• Pawn Islands
• Tripled Pawns
• Pawn Tension
• Perpetual Check
• Piece Activity
• Plan
• Principle of Two Weaknesses
• Prophylaxis
• Queenside Pawn Majority
• Queenside Majority Versus Kingside Majority
• Queenside Majority Versus Central Majority
• Restriction
• Space
• Squares
• Static Versus Dynamic Advantages
• Support Points
• Trading Pieces
• Traps
• Middlegame Quizzes
• The Endgame
• Bishop and Wrong Rook Pawn
• Cat and Mouse
• Exchanging
• Minor Pieces in the Endgame
• Passed Pawns in the Endgame
• Passed Pawns in a Queen Endgame
• Pawn Majority and Outside Passed Pawn
• Promotion and Underpromotion
• Queen and Minor Piece Fights
• Stalemate
• Using the King
• King and Pawn verses King
• Opposition
• Saving Pawn Moves
• Square of the Pawn
• Triangulation
• Using the Rooks
• Active Rook
• Lucena Position
• Philidor Position
• Rooks Behind Passed Pawns
• Short and Long Side of the Board
• Two Hogs on the Seventh
• Endgame Quizzes
• Practical Matters
• Blunder
• Draw Offer
• Point Count
• Psychology
• Time Pressure.

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ISBN

1890085014 (paper)

LCCN

^^^98003544^

OCLC

38602102

RCP

H - S

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