LeMoir, How to Become a Deadly Chess Tactician

LeMoir shows that the key factor sin becoming a deadly chess tactician are motivation, imagination and calculation. This user-frinedly and humorously written book contains many outstanding examples of seized opportunities, together with guidance on how to spot surprising tactics and hadle positions of material imbalance. Throughout, there are exercises for readers to tackle.

240 S., kart., 2002

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Symbols
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Three Steps to Becoming a Deadly Chess Tactician

PART ONE: MOTIVATION
  1    The Old Romantics
  2    The Birth of Dynamism
  3    The New Romantics
  4    The Dynamic Romantics
  5    The Deadly Tactician's Make-Up
The Reflex Action
  6    Material Matters
The Expendable Pawn
The Out-Gunned Rook
The All-Powerful Quenn?
  7    You and Me

PART TWO: IMAGINATION
  8    Simple Silent Sacrifices
Inside the Silent Sacrifice
Square Clearance
Line Clearance
Defelction
Diversion
Decoy
Interference
Elimination and Secondary Line Clearance
Substitution
Line-Grabbing
  9    Complex Silent Sacrifices
Nd5 and All That
Multiple Motifs
10    Brillant Blunders
Passive Sacrifices
The Unpinning Sacrifice
The Shunning Sacrifice
Ambush!
11    Tail-Lights
The Quiet Follow-Up
The Sting in the Tail
Quiet Stings
12    Pawns Passed and Present
Passed Pawn Connections
The Mating Habits of the Passed Pawn
The Pawn-Dash
13    Multiplication
Multiple Methods
Shirov's Multiple Sacrifices

 

PART THREE: CALCULATION
14    Preparing to Sacrifice
The Sacrifice in Order to Sacrifice
Birth of a Combination
15    How not to Calculate Combinations
Calculation for Athletes
Calculation for Joggers
Intuition versus Calculation
Tactical Trackwork
16    Have You Been Paying Attention
Level 1 Test
Level 2 Test
Level 3 Test
17    Solutions
Solutions to Text Exercises
Answers to Level 1 Test
Answers to Level 2 Test
Answers to Level 3 Test

Index of Games