Your Chess Battle Plan (Everyman Chess)

✍ Scribed by Neil McDonald

• Publisher: Everyman Chess
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Many players are serious about their chess but become stuck at a certain playing strength. It's rarely a lack of talent or practice or opening knowledge that holds them back. Usually they get left behind because they don't know how to make best use of the time they have available to study chess.

This book addresses this problem and is your self-improvement plan. It shows you how to work on your own games to root out mistakes. It will sharpen your calculation of variations. You will be challenged to find the best middlegame strategy. Endgame technique is also covered in detail. All topics are discussed with numerous examples and puzzles from the games of modern players such as Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and Viswanathan Anand. If you want your chess to leap forward it's time to Coach Yourself!

* A complete self-improvement programme.

* All aspects of the game included.

* Utilizes a structured approach, making the most of your study time.

✦ Table of Contents

About the Author
Introduction
1 Improving the Activity of your Pieces
2 Stopping the Opponent Playing Good Moves
3 Full Grovel Mode
4 Punishing Faulty Freeing Moves
5 Exploiting a Hole
6 Manoeuvring Against Pawns
7 Promoting a Pawn
8 Using a Pawn as a Battering Ram
9 Sacrificing to Gain the Initiative
10 Deciding the Character of the Game in the Opening
Index of Games
Anand.V-Giri.A, Shamkir 2019
Anand.V-Nakamura.H, London Chess Classic 2010
Aronian.L-Carlsen.M, Stavanger 2017
Aronian.L-Rapport.R, Wijk aan Zee 2017
Aronian.L-Vachier-Lagrave.M, London Chess Classic 2018
V.Artemiev-Z.Izoria, World Team Championship, Astana 2019
V.Artemiev-H.Nakamura, Gibraltar 2019
Banusz.T-Vajda.L, Szentgotthard 2010
Belov.V-Socko.B, Hastings 2004/05
Buhr.C-Malakhov.V, European Cup, Kallithea 2008
Carlsen.M-Anand.V, Grand Chess Tour, Zagreb 2019
Carlsen.M-Grischuk.A, Shamkir 2019
Carlsen.M-Hossain.E, Baku Olympiad 2016
Carlsen.M-Karjakin.S, Sinquefield Cup, St. Louis 2017
Carlsen.M-Yu Yangyi, Stavanger 2019
Caruana.F-Carlsen.M, Grenke Classic, Karlsruhe/Baden Baden 2019
Caruana.F-Carlsen.M, Tromsø Olympiad 2014
Caruana.F-Karjakin.S, Sinquefield Cup, St. Louis 2018
Caruana.F-Karjakin.S, Stavanger 2018
Caruana.F-Shankland.S, US Championship, St. Louis 2016
Demchenko.A-Gukesh.D, Ho Chi Minh City 2019
Doghri.N-Ilincic.Z, Istanbul Olympiad 2000
Duda.J-Navara.D, Prague 2019
Duda.J-Rapport.R, Wijk aan Zee 2019
Fedoseev.V-Giri.A, Wijk aan Zee 2019
Fedoseev.V-Shankland.S, Wijk aan Zee 2019
Giri.A-Caruana.F, Wijk aan Zee 2013
Giri.A-Harikrishna.P, Shenzhen 2019
Grischuk.A-Gelfand.B, FIDE Grand Prix, Khanty-Mansiysk 2015
Grischuk.A-Volokitin.A, Baku Olympiad 2016
Habu.Y-Kasparov.G, Rapid Match, Tokyo 2014
Hou Yifan-Toufighi.H, Subic Bay 2009
Ivanisevic.I-Ivanchuk.V, European Championship, Batumi 2018
Ivic.V-Predke.A, European Championship, Skopje 2019
Karjakin.S-Esipenko.A, World Rapid Championship, Riyadh 2017
Karjakin.S-So.W, FIDE Candidates, Berlin 2018
Korobov.A-Anand.V, German Bundesliga 2019