Devious Chess: How to Bend the Rules and Win

✍ Scribed by Amatzia Avni

• Publisher: Batsford
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 146
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Master chess psychologist Amatzia Avni outlines a new approach to playing chess -- be tricksy about your game, bend the rules where possible and always come out on top! Players of all abilities are urged, step-by-step, to unlearn everything they've learned so far and adopt a fearless attitude to the game. Every tip for bending the rules is included here with comprehensive illustrated games. Includes: * The Nature of Tricky Chess: Virgin land * Raising the tension to boiling point * Coffeehouse chess * Not so elementary, my dear Watson * Peculiar moves Principled Issues of 'Tricky Chess': Twists and turns * The trap vs blunder dilemma * Methods of conducting 'tricky chess' Illustrative Games* Assesment and Implementation: Evaluation of tricksy chess * Transforming into a 'tricky chess' player