Chess Middlegames

✍ Scribed by Laszlo Polgar

• Publisher: Konemann
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 994
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a superb book for the strong club player to near master and I haven't seen anything like it before. It is a compilation of 4158 positions from master play grouped into 77 different tactical or positional themes. For example, 168 positions of isolated queen pawn play, 108 hedgehog positions, 168 Sicilian sacrifice positions and so on. The examples given illustrate problem solving skills at the highest level, but because of the great number, the solutions (game continuations and commentary) are necessarily brief. Hence it is a book not for the average club player who needs explanations of the methods of play, but for the seasoned player who wants to analyse out for himself the best means of playing typical positions, and to be alert to tactical opportunities. Out of Print extremely Rare 1998 First HUNGARIAN Hardcover Edition from Budapest, HUN * Collectable LIKE NEW * practically NEW, but with minute shelf wear * Pages mint, binding mint * Dust Jacket also LIKE NEW in NEW bro dart jacket cover * * The purchase of this item also qualifies you to receive TEN (10) FREE ‘Thank you’ Gifts from LabateChessPlus,. We’ll will send you an email with our, as of Dec. 1, 2015, 59 FREE selections for you to choose from, and then you may email us the choice of your FREE ‘Thank you’ Gift * Purchase (2) two or more individually listed items here on Amazon, and I’ll upgrade your USA shipping to Priority Mail (2-3 days delivery estimate) at no additional charge * Additionally, when ‘earning’ Upgraded shipping, you also qualify for an ADDITIONAL “‘Thank You’ Gift”. When you're done making your selections, please send me an email requesting that I 'correct' your shipping to Upgraded, as well as to let me know your choice of your “ ‘Thank You’ Gift”!! * 23 hr shipping or quicker!! Safely packaged with delivery tracking, with confirmation email. * SMOKE-FREE home * Thank you for looking - Edward Labate, National Chess Master, Las Vegas, NV USA

✦ Table of Contents

FRONT PAGE
Contents
1. Epaulet mate
2. Back rank
3. Double attack
4. Deflection
5. Decoy
6. Clearance
7. Discovered attack
8. Opening up the diagonal
9. Long diagonal
10. Opening up a line
11. Open line
12. Closing a line
13. Pin
14. Rook on the 7th or the 2nd rank
15. Sacrifice on h7
16. Sacrifice on h6
17. Sacrifice on g7
18. Sacrifice on g6
19. Sacrifice on f7
20. Sacrifice on f6
21. Attack against the kingside
22. Hunting the king
23. Annihilation of the defensive piece
24. King in the middle
25. March with the king
26. Opposite side castling
27. Counter attack
28. Defence
29. Attack with pawns
30. Pawn breakthrough
31. Pawn hunt
32. Advantage in development
33. Positional pawn sacrifice
34. Positional exchange sacrifice
35. Positional piece sacrifice
36. Positional queen sacrifice
37. Penetration
38. Activation of pieces
39. Intermediate move
40. Weakness of the isolated pawn
41. Isolated pawn, attack
42. Isolated pawn, breakthrough by d5
43. Hanging pawns
44. Backward pawn
45. Passed pawn
46. Phalanx
47. Rook manoeuvre
48.Knight manoeuvre
49.Bishop manoeuvre
50.Queen manoeuvre
51. Capturing the queen
52. Piece on a bad square
53. Knight on the edge of the board
54. Knight on d6, e6 or d3, e3
55. Opposite coloured bishops
56. A Pair of bishops
57. Strong knight versus bad bishop
58. Exchange of a piece
59. Avoiding exchanges
60. Liquidation
61. Advantage in the centre
62. Breakthrough in the centre
63. Blowing up the centre
64. Hedgehog
65. Hedgehog, blowing up with d5
66.Minority attack
67. Stone wall
68. King's Indian attack against the white king
69. Sicilian piece sacrifice on d5
70. Sicilian exchange sacrifice on c3
71. Other Sicilian piece sacrifices
72. Blockade
73. Weak square
74. Perpetual check
75. Profilax
76. Space advantage
77. Double rook sacrifice
Solutions