Boost Your Chess 1: Fundamentals
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Boost your chess is the second book in Artur Yusupov’s Fundamentals series, helping players to build their skills on solid foundations. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary World Champions Karpov and Kasparov. He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship. In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.
Contents
1 The windmill
2 Pawn weaknesses
3 Back rank combinations
4 Exploiting weaknesses
5 The 7th rank
6 Fortresses
7 The pawn wedge
8 Opening traps
9 The use of traps
10 Stalemate combinations
11 The semi-open file
12 Mate with bishop and knight
13 Combinations involving files
14 Outposts
15 Combinations involving diagonals
16 Elementary endgames
17 Combinations with knights
18 The principles behind mobilization
19 Perpetual check
20 Mate in two moves
21 Combinations with the major pieces
22 Coordination of the pieces
23 Combinations with knights
24 Zugzwang
Final test
This book is also available in the Yusupov Fundamentals 4 book bundle and the Yusupov Training Series 10 book bundle.