101 Killer Chess Strategies. Grand Master Secrets Revealed

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T......Page 3 Decoding the Board......Page 7 Figurines......Page 8 More Chess Notation Lingo......Page 9 Part 2. The Fine Art of Trading Pieces......Page 11 Part 3: The Importance of Pattern Recognition......Page 12 Basic Opening Principles......Page 13 Strategic and Tactical Ideas......Page 14 The Middle Game......Page 15 Who is better?......Page 16 Evaluation, Planning and Analyzing......Page 17 Tactical Middle Game Guidelines to remember......Page 18 The Importance of Schematic Thinking In The Middle Game......Page 19 Planning for the End Game......Page 20 Important End Game Principles......Page 21 Pawn Endings......Page 22 Rook Endings......Page 23 Knight Endings......Page 24 Bishop against Knight......Page 25 Bishop Endings – Same color squares......Page 26 Some Illustrative End Game Principles......Page 27 The Fork......Page 29 The Pin......Page 30 The Discovered Attack......Page 31 The Discovered Check......Page 32 Decoy......Page 33 The Xray......Page 34 1. The Four Center Square Advantage......Page 35 2. Open Lines for Rooks & Queens......Page 37 Strength of the seventh and eighth rank......Page 38 3. Pawn Structures......Page 39 Locked Pawn Chain......Page 40 Isolated Pawns......Page 41 Doubled Pawns......Page 42 Strong and weak Squares......Page 43 Pawn Structure Exercise......Page 45 1. Pawn to d4 The Queen's Pawn......Page 47 2. Pawn to e4 The King's Pawn......Page 49 The Albin Counter Gambit......Page 52 Benko Gambit......Page 53 Benoni Used as A Way into the English Opening......Page 54 Benoni Used As a Way into the Benko Gambit......Page 55 Dutch Defense......Page 56 Gruenfeld Defense......Page 58 King's Indian Defense......Page 60 An example of a Four Pawns' Attack From King's Gambit......Page 61 Nimzo Indian Defense......Page 63 Queen's Indian Defense......Page 66 Alekhine's Defense......Page 69 Four Pawn Attack......Page 70 Bishop's Opening......Page 71 Caro-Kann Defense......Page 72 The Scandinavian Defense......Page 75 Playing the Center Game......Page 77 Dutch Defense......Page 78 French Defense......Page 81 Evans Gambit......Page 84 King's Gambit......Page 85 Petrov's Defense......Page 86 Philidor's Defense......Page 88 The Spanish Game......Page 91 Bird's Opening......Page 95 English Opening......Page 96 Nimzo-Larsen Attack......Page 97 Reti System (moving a Knight)......Page 100 Rook on the 7th rank......Page 101 Two Rooks on the 7th rank......Page 102 The Extreme Blockade......Page 104 Attacking A Chain of Pawns......Page 105 King and Rook vs. King......Page 107 King and two Bishops vs. King......Page 108 Rook vs. Pawn......Page 109 Weak King in front of Pawn......Page 111 Stalemate......Page 112 Triple repetition......Page 113 The Fifty Move Rule......Page 115 Mutual agreement......Page 116 CAUSES OF TIME TROUBLE......Page 117 PRACTICAL ADVICE......Page 118 If your opponent is in time trouble:......Page 119 Recommended Reading Resources......Page 120 Appendix A......Page 121 The Immortal game – Anderssen Vs Kieseritzky......Page 122 References......Page 128 Evergreen game – Anderssen Vs Dufresne......Page 130 References......Page 131 Opera game – Paul Morhy Vs Duke, Isouard......Page 132 References......Page 134 The Game of the Century – Byrne Vs Fischer......Page 135 References......Page 139 Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1......Page 140 References......Page 142 Kasparov versus The World......Page 144 Pre-game speculation and preparation......Page 146 References......Page 169 Helpful Web Sites......Page 170 Chess Glossary......Page 171