Winning Chess Combinations
Title | Winning Chess Combinations PDF eBook |
Author | Yasser Seirawan |
Publisher | Everyman Chess |
Pages | 572 |
Release | 2006-06-01 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 1781945144 |
Combinations are the central element in chess; they make the game so magical and captivating. The beautiful point of sacrificing a queen, the strongest piece, in order to checkmate with a lowly pawn brings a smile of joy to all chess lovers. Virtually all chess games possess a combination, either one hidden in the shadows of analysis carefully avoided or one that provides a decisive blow. Winning Chess Combinations is a unique work that doesn't merely repeat the wonderfully rich and vast numbers of combinations, asking readers to solve a particular diagrammed position; it is a work that is far more realistic. A combination involves a sacrifice upsetting the balance of forces, but will it work or tragically boomerang? The reader is invited to solve this critical question by identifying the advantages that a specific position holds which might make the combination successful.
Middlegames
Title | Middlegames PDF eBook |
Author | László Polgár |
Publisher | Konemann-Ellipsis |
Pages | 1015 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Games |
ISBN | 9783895086830 |
Chess Combinations
Title | Chess Combinations PDF eBook |
Author | John Walker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Games |
ISBN | 9781857445398 |
Bestselling chess author John Walker presents a feast of exciting and challenging chess positions for young and improving players to solve.
Combinations
Title | Combinations PDF eBook |
Author | Irving Chernev |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2012-08-30 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 0486157865 |
Irving Chernev's outstanding chess books earn him a high rank among the world's top chess authors. In this well-annotated text, Mr. Chernev guides his readers to an understanding of the subtleties of combinative play. Step-by-step from the simplest combinations to the most complex, the book explains the intricacies of pins and counter-pins, Knight forks, smothered mates, and other elements of combination play. There is a discussion in chapter five of combinations lurking in roads not taken — alternate lines of play show up in Chernev's notes to the game, while the sixth chapter, "Convincing the Kibitzers," shows the second-guessers what would have happened had the masters done the obvious. (Some disastrous combinations show up here.) A host of boomerangs follow — cases where the player didn't look far enough ahead and his combination, instead of bringing about the opponent's ruin, paved the way to his defeat. Chapters eight through twenty one take up combinations used by such great players as Tarrasch, Botvinnik, Nimzovich, Steinitz, Rubinstein, and Pillsbury; the sacrificial combinations of Anderssen and Spielmann; the dazzling brilliancies of Morphy, Keres, and Alekhine; the deadly attacks of Marshall; the almost unfathomable ideas of Lasker; and the matchless creations of Capablanca. Mr. Chernev's thoughtful annotations unravel the secrets of each of these plans. A diagram accompanies each combination; an index, by player, leads the reader to the combination he is looking for.
The Art of Chess Combination
Title | The Art of Chess Combination PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Znosko-Borovsky |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2013-12-31 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 0486147541 |
This essential work provides modern explanations of principles, varieties, and techniques of combination maneuvers, plus the ideas behind them. Examples from the games of many great players provide illustrations. 200 diagrams.
The Basis of Combination in Chess
Title | The Basis of Combination in Chess PDF eBook |
Author | Julius Du Mont |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1944 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Chess
Title | Chess PDF eBook |
Author | László Polgár |
Publisher | Black Dog & Leventhal Pub |
Pages | 1104 |
Release | 2013-08-13 |
Genre | Games |
ISBN | 9781579125547 |
Presents a collection of instructional situations and chess moves.