How Good Is Your Chess

✍ Scribed by Daniel King

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 126
• Edition: illustrated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Chess enthusiasts can find out where they stand in terms of chess mastery by facing off against 20 of the world's top players with this instructive and amusing guide. Looking closely at complete games played by the experts inspires players to form new ideas about their overall strategy. Grandmaster Daniel King based How Good Is Your Chess? on his popular Chess Monthly column. His easy-to-follow, test-yourself format asks readers to predict their opponent's moves. In addition to helping players judge their standard of play, it gives them opportunities for improvement by working out and studying the plans and ideas of the best players in the game.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 4
Introduction......Page 5
A Real Chessplayer......Page 7
Precision Play......Page 13
Control and Co-ordination......Page 19
Roll of the Dice......Page 25
Experience v. Youth......Page 30
Genesis of a Champion......Page 37
A King in Exile......Page 42
A Question of Technique......Page 49
Luddite......Page 54
The Hedgehog......Page 59
Planet Shirov......Page 66
A Theoretical Battle......Page 72
Brick-walls......Page 77
Classical Originality......Page 82
The Greatest Fighter......Page 88
The Spirit of Paul Morphy......Page 97
Speed King......Page 103
Genius......Page 109
Master v. Pupil......Page 116
A Life of Struggle......Page 120

✦ Subjects

Физическая культура и спорт;Шахматы;Шахматные практикумы и композиции;