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HOW TO REASSESS YOUR CHESS

A COMPLETE COURSE TO CHESS MASTERY

EXPANDED 3RD EDITION

JEREMY SILMAN
INTERNATIONAL MASTER

SUMMIT PUBLISHING Los Angeles

How To Reassess Your Chess offers the chess student a step-by-step course that is designed to create a marked improvement in anyone's game. In clear, direct language, Jeremy Silman shows how to dissect a position, recognize its individual parts, and ultimately find the one move that conforms to the needs of any particular situation. 

By explaining the thought processes that go into a master's choice of move, Mr. Silman presents a system of thought that makes advanced strategies seem clear, logical, and at times even obvious.

For those who have always dreamed about truly under-standing the mysteries of chess, How To Reassess Your Chess offers invaluable knowledge and insight that cannot be found in any other source.

International Chess Master
Jeremy Silman is a world-class teacher, writer, and player who has won the American Open, the National Open, and the U.S. Open. The author of twenty-four best selling chess books, he has also written dozens of articles that have appeared in maga zines throughout the world.
For the last three years Mr. Silman has been the coach of the United States delegation to the World Junior Champion ship, taking his team to Brazil, Germany, and Slovakia. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

SUMMIT PUBLISHING

"The most fundamentally important miidicgame book since Nonzo's My System.
Nick deFirmian,
INTERNATIONAL GRANDMASTER 1987 U.S. CHAMRON AUTHOR OF THE THETEENTH EDITION OF MODERN
CHESS OPENINGS

"The ideas expressed in Mr. Silman's How To Reassess Your Chess are as useful to the master as they are to the average player. 
If you want to understand chess then this book should be read again and again."
-John Donaldson.INTERNATIONAL MASTR. AUTHOR OF ALLKHINE EUROPE AND ASIA

A book that teaches you how to recognize the essential features of any position. Impressive and instructine.
-Jack Peters.
INTERNATIONAL MASTER LOS ANGELES TIMES COLUMNIST

"The system ofthought expounded in this book is so effective that I have begun to teach it to my own students"
Elliott Winslow
INTERNATIONAL MASTER ASSISTANT EDITOR, CHESS LIFE MAGAZINE

CONTENTS
Key To Notation And Symbols

Preface to the Third Edition

Introduction

PART ONE: BASIC ENDGAMES 1
Chapter One-Understanding The King 3
Chapter Two-King And Pawn Endgames 9
Chapter Three-Rook And Pawn Endgames 15

PART TWO: THINKING TECHNIQUES AND LIST OF IMBALANCES
Chapter One-What Is A Plan? 25
Chapter Two-Imbalances And The 'Silman Thinking Technique' 27

PART THREE: CALCULATION AND COMBINATIONS
Chapter One-Calculation 37
Chapter Two-Rules of Combination 47

PART FOUR: MINOR PIECES IN THE MIDDLEGAME
Chapter One-The Bishop 55
Chapter Two-Understanding Knights 79
Chapter Three-Dogs Vs. Cats/Bishops Vs. Knights 93
Chapter Four-The Power Of The Two Bishops 111
Chapter Five-The Two Knights Victorious! 121

PART FIVE: SPACE AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
Chapter One-The Big Squeeze. 133
Chapter Two-The Dark Side Of Space. 142
Chapter Three-Block Before You Punch! 147

PART SIX: THE MYSTERY OF THE CENTER
Chapter One-The Center Under Siege 157
Chapter Two-The Indestructible Center 162

PART SEVEN: WEAK PAWNS STRONG PAWNS
Chapter One-Doubled Pawns 169
Chapter Two-The Isolated Pawn 180
Chapter Three-Backward Pawns 189
Chapter Four-Passed Pawns 196

PART EIGHT: WEAK SQUARES 
Chapter One-The Creation Of A Weakness 209
Chapter Two-Making Use Of A Weak Square 213

PART NINE: MATERIAL LOSS AND SACRIFICE
Chapter One-Exchanging Material For Other Imbalances 225
Chapter Two- Making Use Of Extra Material 232

PART TEN: TEMPORARY IMBALANCES-DEVELOPMENT AND INITIATIVE
Chapter One-Slow Play vs. Fast Play-Static vs.Dynamic 245
Chapter Two-A Lead In Development 254
Chapter Three-Initiative 261

PART ELEVEN: OPEN FILES
Chapter One-Penetration Down An Open File 271
Chapter Two-Domination Of Open Files 280

PART TWELVE: THREE KEYS TO SUCCESS
Chapter One-Mastering Positions With Many Types of Imbalances 287
Chapter Two-Preventing Counterplay 296
Chapter Three-Art Of Fighting Back 302

PART THIRTEEN: USING IMBALANCES IN EVERY PHASE OF THE GAME
Chapter One-Imbalances In The Opening 313
Chapter Two-Imbalances In The Endgame 323
Chapter Three-Opening Imbalances That Last Till The Endgame 333

PART FOURTEEN: GLOSSARY 

PART FIFTEEN: THE SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS

PART SIXTEEN: RECOMMENDED READING LIST