A painless course to improve your performance in the central part of the chess battle! In the same lucid style as the first two volumes in this series, 'Practical Opening Tips' and 'Practical Endgame Tips, ' Mednis provides a wealth of common-sense advice that will benefit players of all standards. Here there are no unnatural or esoteric theories about how one should think, just down-to-earth insights from an extremely experienced writer and player. Mednis covers all the main areas of middlegame play - planning, combinations, attacking, and defending. Grandmaster Edmar Mednis is an extremely experienced chess writer, whose work has been praised by no less an authority than leading trainer Mark Dvoretsky

Aimed at the player who wants to improve his or her understanding of the most important middlegame concepts

In this book, Grandmaster Edmar Mednis provides a thorough grounding in the principles of opening play. He begins with an explanation of the basics of opening strategy and covers a wide range of subjects that are of particular significance to club and tournament players, including the aims of the opening, mastering a new opening, how to avoid bad variations, Garry Kasparov's influence on modern opening theory, and much, much more. Grandmaster Mednis is one of the world's leading chess writers. He is a regular columnist for Chess Life magazine and author of From the Opening into the Endgame, From the Middlegame into the Endgame, and How to Be a Complete Tournament Player, and co-author of Rate Your Endgame (all published by Cadogan).

The endgame is the part of the game in which the result of the game is decided, yet few players devote as much study to it as they know they should. This book will help remedy the problem. By addressing important practical aspects of the endgame in lively fashion, Mednis draws the reader into exploring the endgame in a painless and captivating manner. Here at last is an endgame book designed to be read from cover to cover! Starting with entertaining, cautionary examples of resignations in drawn or even winning positions, Mednis moves on to discuss the key practical aspects of rook endings, minor-piece endings, and endings with a double pawn. Mednis touches on many other facets of the practical endgame struggle, including psychological factors, making use of special insights, and risks in the endgame. Grandmaster Edmar Mednis is an extremely experienced chess writer, whose work has been praised by no less an authority than leading trainer Mark Dvoretsky. His column, The Practical Endgame, is syndicated in chess magazines around the world, and renowned for its accessibility and originality. His previous books for Cadogan include 'From the Opening into the Endgame' and 'Practical Opening Tips.' (5 11/16' X 8 1/8', 144 pages, illustrations, indexes)

A thorough understanding of the middlegame is essential for any aspiring player wishing to improve their game. This book uses examples from practical play to develop tactical and positional skills and awareness to enable you to make the most of your opportunities in the middlegame. It explains the basic ideas of tactical and positional play, provides numerous exercises for readers to test themselves and has a revolutionary layout to help readers absorb the key ideas. (6 7/8 x 9 5/8, 144 pages, b&w illustrations)

Opening preparation is useful, but understanding the middlegame is much more important. This book, an improved edition of a Russian classic, teaches amateur chess players 45 extremely effective skills in a crystal-clear manner. Quite a few of the ideas presented here will surprise the reader, because they offer solutions for problems the club player is only subconsciously aware. How do you activate your rook pawn? How do you prevent your opponent from opening a file? How do you restrict the efficacy of your opponents pieces? Which rook belongs on the c-, d- or e-file? What is the best way to exchange a piece? How do you castle artificially? In most cases the techniques are easy to understand and memorize. Bronznik and Terekhin do not burden the reader with deep analysis and only present those variations that are really necessary to get the point. There is a special training section at the end of the book where you can test your skills. ,

"A chess Olympic Gold Medal winner explains how you can dramatically improve your chess results"--Cover.