Boost Your Chess 2: Beyond the Basics
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Boost Your Chess 2 continues Yusupov’s Beyond the Basics series. The Fundamentals series shows players the basic ideas they should know, then the Beyond the Basics series sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary World Champions Karpov and Kasparov. He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship. In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.
Contents
1 Attacking the king
2 The open file
3 ‘Minor’ tactics
4 Opening repertoire for White - the French Defence
5 Simple rook endings
6 Fighting against the pawn centre
7 Trapping pieces
8 Calculating short variations
9 Weak points
10 Line blocking
11 Opening repertoire for Black against 1.d4
12 Simple rook endings 2
13 Blocking combinations
14 The bishop pair
15 Typical mistakes in calculating variations
16 Removing the defence
17 Good and bad bishops
18 Closed openings
19 Line clearing
20 Endgame technique
21 Blockade
22 Dragging the king out
23 Reti/English Opening
24 Typical mistakes in the endgame
Final test
This book is also available in the Yusupov Beyond the Basics 3 book bundle and the Yusupov Training Series 10 book bundle.