Fabrego, True Lies in Chess

For Lluis Comas Fabrego chess is about more than just winning as many games as possible, it is a creative search for the truth. In True Lies in Chess Comas Fabrego takes on the challenging task of separating the truth from lies in chess literature. Guided by many practical examples and clear advice, the readers will learn how to reduce the complexity of chess towards the essential features of each position, and so improve their play.
The author argues that in modern chess the tendency to prefer concrete analysis to the written word is dangerous. Humans are incapable of finding the correct move by brute-force calculation like a computer. We must simplify the problem by focusing on the elements that our judgement tells us are most significant. Comas Fabrego shows how his creative approach has helped him find many novelties in the opening, particularly concentrating on the Na6-lines of the King?s Indian in which he is a renowned expert.
165 S., kart., 2007

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Bibliography
List of Symbols

CHAPTER I:  Do not Trust the Classics
The tip of the iceberg
Dogmatic = Limited
Some more rigour would not be amiss...
Applying what has been learnt
Challening the heavyweights
Nobody is without sin

CHAPTER II: Middlegame Motifs
I.  The blockaded passed pawn
   Minority attack
   An excellent example
   Reality is always more complex than theory
II. Jupiter and its satellites: the f-file versus the strong point on e4
   Can you dance?
   What are you telling me?
   The thin (and subtle) line between prophylaxis and passivity

CHAPTER III: Final Conclusion?
Neither so simple nor so clear
The empire strikes back
Exchanging queens (the relation between the opening and the endgame)
New ideas in the pipeline

CHAPTER IV: How are Opening Novelties Born?
Episode I: The analysis of a model game as a asource of inspiration
Episode II: First-hand impressions
Episode III: Preconceptions
Episode IV: The devastating influence of preconceptions
Episode V: Building new paths
Episode VI and last: Applying the ideas so far discussed to modern positions
   The practical etst
   Long-term structural and positional advantages versus time
   Applying the new concepts to opneing theory
   Timeversus Material: positional pawn sacrifices in the opening
   Thanks Mr Dvoretsky: Prophylaxis and logix in the opening
   I leave befroe I get kicked out
   Is it possible to completely neutralize the opponent's initiative?

CHAPTER V: The Opening Acording to Me - or Why I Like ...Na6 in the King's Indian
Creating somethimg new
   Line 1: Play à la Petrosian
   Line 2: Other Nuances of the move Bg5
   Line 3: Near the storm
   Line 4: In the eye of the black knights
White gets rid of the blackknights
White only exchanges one enemy knight
Miscellany: Three stories
   1. Evaluations change
   2. Whatever happened to...?
   3. A Chess Symphony

CHAPTER VI: The Others