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