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What is the best way to improve your chess results?
Memorising an opening encyclopedia, learning endgame theory, solving puzzle positions ... there must be an easier way. How about making the most of your existing talent?
In this book, John Nunn helps you to do precisely that.
Drawing upon more than three decades of experience, he provides advice that will help players of all standards, playing styles and temperaments to achieve improved results.
His methods take into account psychological factors and are firmly based on good common sense and the objectivity that has made
John Nunn one of the world's favourite writers on chess.
Topics include:
Defending difficult positions
How to study the openings
How to make decisions
Avoiding common mistakes
When to calculate
Coping with pressure
Avoiding time-trouble
Contents
Introduction
1 At the Board
Decision-making
The Tree of Analysis revisited
Evaluation functions
When to analyse
DAUT
Safety-nets
When the tactics have to work
Implicit commitments
Positional thinking
The method of comparison
Making your opponent think
Oversights and blunders
Warning signals
'Hard-to-see' moves
Time-trouble
Laziness
Determination
2 The Opening
Building a repertoire
Using opening books
Books on offbeat openings
3 The Middlegame
Good positions
Bad positions
Attack
'Inviting everyone to the party'
Over-sacrificing
Defence
4 The Endgame
King and Pawn endings
Opposition
The Réti manoeuvre
Triangulation
Expect the unexpected
Chess is more than counting
Rook endings
Rook and Pawn vs Rook
The extra Pawn
Positional advantage
Minor-piece endings
Knight endings
Bishop vs Knight endings
Bishop endings
Queen endings
Queen and Pawn vs Queen
The extra Pawn
Common endings without Pawns
Rook vs minor piece
Rook and minor piece vs Rook
Quick-play finishes
5 Using a Computer
Game databases
Playing programs
Index of Names
Index of Openings
Dr John Nunn has been one of the world's leading grandmasters for nearly twenty years and regularly competes in both grandmaster tournaments and domestic events.
He has won four gold medals in chess Olympiads and finished sixth overall in the World Cup in 1989.
He has twice won the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award.
ISBN 1-901983-01-3
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