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El ajedrez está considerado como un arte y una ciencia, por lo que todas las estrategias que se suelen emplear se pueden transcribir y estudiar después de haberlas puesto en práctica.
Muchas veces puede darse el caso de que una partida se arruine por una serie de movimientos inadecuados, por ello es conveniente repasarlos para encontrar el fallo
y darse cuenta de las consecuencias que han tenido.
Con el paso del tiempo, si se ha puesto en...
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The best advice for chess players who want to improve quickly is: get better at tactics! Simply because the vast majority of amateur games is decided through tactics you will immediately start beating more opponents when you improve your tactical skills. Experienced Russian Grandmaster Jakov Neishtadt has selected those examples from the games of masters that have the biggest instructional value for club players. In the first part of the book Neishstadt...
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Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand (1969) was the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2007-2013. In 2007 Anand won a strong eight-player, double round robin tournament in Mexico City. It is highly unusual to become World Champion by winning a tournament instead of a match, but this had to do with the fact that FIDE was looking for a way to reunify the World Chess Championship. Since 1993, there were two World Chess Champions: a Classical World...
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Veselin Topalov (1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, a former #1 in the world rankings and a former World Champion. He is a very energetic player, always looking for interesting moves, complicated positions and fighting chances. He never gives up and plays for a win with both the white and the black pieces.
Topalov became the FIDE World Chess Champion by winning the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 tournament in San Luis, Argentina. He lost...
66) Taming Wild Chess Openings: How to Deal with the Good, the Bad and the Ugly over the Chess Board
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No matter how unconventional, irrational or even crazy an opening is, sooner or later every chess player will have to face it. When that happens, you can count on a well-prepared opponent who is more than happy to roll out his pet line.
John Watson and Eric Schiller provide club-players with solutions to a huge selection of these rarely-played or tricky chess openings. They concentrate upon ideas and strategy, with enough analysis to satisfy the...
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Opening, middlegame and endgame are the three universally recognized stages of a game of chess, but what about the art of preparation? Winning starts with planning before the game, teaches legendary chess trainer Vladimir Tukmakov in this enlightening and entertaining work on a neglected subject.
Exploring and understanding, prior to the game, the strengths and weaknesses of your next opponent and being aware of your own strong points and shortcomings,...
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"I left chess in 2012. I did not touch it for several years. Then I decided to test my strength in Internet blitz. I started from scratch. The board floated before my eyes, and my knee twitched. Less than two months later, I crossed the grandmaster rating mark. My opponents, among them lots of players with a big name, played chess better than me. Surprisingly though, I knew more. On a small island of chess theory, onto which I lured them, I was better...
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This book entitled Advance Chess- Inferential View Analysis of the Double Set Game, Robotic Intelligence Possibilities contains Diagrams, Drawings, Illustrations and Photos about the Double Set game (D.2.30) played on the Advance chess game board, Model III, the Longitudinal Star Gate 14 Model or S.G. 14 Model.
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This book marks the start of a series of four on 1.d4 in which Ivan will share the secrets from two decades spent analyzing and playing it at the pinnacle of world chess. This volume in particular deals with two of the most popular replies Black can play after 1.d4: the King's Indian & Grûnfeld Defense. This repertoire book is cutting-edge theory, recommending f3 for White against the fianchet to systems.
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Who says that you can't learn from the games of amateurs? Renowned chess instructor and writer Dan Heisman presents thirty games by intermediate-level players, each one offering a rich variety of lessons in practical competitive play for all chess enthusiasts.
The catalog of errors runs the gamut from taking too much (or too little!) time to think, to shoddy calculation, cutting off analysis too soon, and ignoring the principles of sound strategy....
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Viktor Moskalenko's bestselling books The Flexible French (2008) and The Even More Flexible French (2015) were hailed by reviewers from all over the world as eye-opening, full of new ideas, easy to read, sparkling, and inspirational.
Time has not stood still, and the popular French Defence has seen a lot of new developments, not in the last place thanks to Moskalenko's books. The Ukrainian grandmaster himself has kept playing and researching his...
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Garry Kasparov is a fighter, both in chess and in life. The 13th World Champion regards his playing style as 'a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer'. Kasparov was known for his deep opening analysis, but also for his positional understanding and combinatory play. Do you want to adopt Kasparov-like thought processes in your own games? Try this tactics training book and play the same winning moves as the former World Champion did in...
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Chess with a new swing, the German translation of the fourth and completely revised edition of Silman's legendary "How to Reassess Your Chess", is a modern classic in which Silman takes his groundbreaking concept of imbalances to a whole new level.
The book is aimed at players with a rating between 1400 and 2100 and at coaches who are looking for an immediately applicable chess course.
In this book, the author takes the reader on a journey that...
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Chess has the rare quality that children love it despite the fact that it is good for them. Playing chess is just like life: you have to make plans, take decisions, be creative, deal with challenges, handle disappointments, interact with others and evaluate your actions.
In this guide, psychologist and chess teacher Karel van Delft provides access to the underlying scientific research and presents the best didactical methods. Van Delft has created...
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Have you always wanted to play chess like a World Champion? This tactics, training book gives you the opportunity to make the same winning moves as Carlsen did in his games. One hundred training exercises are, offered here. You only have to find the move that Carlsen played! The puzzles start at a moderate level and gradually get more difficult. Can you be, as sharp as, the current World Champion?
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Many club players think that studying chess is all about cramming as much information in their brain as they can. Most textbooks support that notion by stressing the importance of always trying to find the objectively best move. As a result amateur players are spending way too much time worrying about subtleties that are really only relevant for grandmasters.
Emanuel Lasker, the second and longest reigning World Chess Champion (27 years!), understood...
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In this sequel to his instant classic Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition, a highly original take on practical middlegame instruction, Arthur van de Oudeweetering presents players of almost every level with a fresh supply of essential, yet easy-to-remember building blocks for their chess knowledge.
Pattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement. It helps you to quickly grasp the essence of a position on the board...
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What goes on in some of the sharpest minds on earth? Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam has collected a new series of intimate portraits of the top grandmasters of chess, winning the confidence of Garry Kasparov, Miguel Najdorf, Vishy Anand, Judit Polgar, David Bronstein, Hikaru Nakamura and many others. Anyone attracted by the mystique of the royal game will love the behind-the-scenes stories about the masters’ struggle to win, their fear of losing, and the...
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En el ajedrez, cada jugada exige una decisión que puede condicionar el resultado final. Este innovador método de estudio te ofrece la posibilidad de avanzar paso a paso a través de los recursos tácticos más famosos del ajedrez desde un enfoque didáctico orientado a la práctica.
• Las principales tácticas del ajedrez explicadas con ejemplos y consejos para vencer a tu rival.
• Un gran número de ejercicios para practicar maniobras, jugadas...
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