Positional Decision Making in Chess

✍ Scribed by Boris Gelfand

• Publisher: Quality Chess
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Edition: illustrated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Positional Decision Making in Chess offers a rare look into the mind of a top grandmaster. In his efforts to explain his way of thinking, Boris Gelfand focuses on such topics as the squeeze, space advantage, the transformation of pawn structures and the transformation of advantages. Based on examples from his own games and those of his hero, Akiba Rubinstein, Gelfand explains how he thinks during the game.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Key to Symbols used
Preface
Foreword by Jacob Aagaard
1. Playing in the Style of Akiba Rubinstein
2. The Squeeze
3. Space Advantage
4. Transformation of Pawn Structures
5. Transformation of Advantages
I Cannot Leave My House! - Interview with Jacob Aagaard-2012
Name Index
Game Index
Opening Index
Back Cover