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