Klappentext An easy-to-understand guide to chess strategy -- conceptual planning -- has always been the amateur's dream. This comprehensive guide in dictionary form makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength. Each strategic concept is listed alphabetically and followed by a clear easy-to-absorb explanation accompanied by examples of how this strategy is used in practice. Such great work champions as Steinitz, Capablanca, Petrosian, Fischer and Karpov have used these strategies in virtually all of their games. Now as you incorporate these weapons into your own play, they will enrich your appreciation of the game and lead you to one beautiful victory after another.

Autorentext

Jeremy Silman is an International Master and a world-class teacher, writer, and player who has won the American Open, the National Open, and the U.S. Open. Considered by many to be the games preeminent instructive writer, he is the author of over thirty-seven books, including Silmans Complete Endgame Course, The Amateurs Mind, The Complete Book of Chess Strategy, and The Reassess Your Chess Workbook. His website (www.jeremysilman.com) offers fans of the game instruction, book reviews, theoretical articles, and details of his work in the creation of the chess scene in the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.

Klappentext

This comprehensive guide, in dictionary form, makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength. Each strategic concept is listed alphabetically and followed by a clear, easy-to-absorb explanation accompanied by examples of how this strategy is used in practice.

Zusammenfassung
Presented in dictionary form, strategy, tactics, basic opening and endgame ideas and even game psychology are included here.