Strategy and Tactics,
224 Seiten, gebunden, Informator-Verlag, 1. Auflage 2022
 
Learn from the legacy of one of the most talented players to ever grace the chess world.All elements of the game explained in an easy-to-digest and highly entertaining fashion. Dear readers, it is both our solemn duty and exceptional honour to present you a collection of Ivkov’s instructive explorations on various chess themes. In this book you will find a great number of intriguing anecdotes casting a new light on some of the greatest chess players of all time, and some lesser known heroes of our bellowed game. Also, this book can serve you as an inspiration to investigate a bit deeper in the areas of strategy, planning and tactics learning chess in the ”good, old way“ unpolluted by the excessive engine usage. Finally, you can simply browse through the material and enjoy solving numerous riddles, studies and puzzles, picking up bits of chess wisdom along the way.
We hope that you will find as much enjoyment reading this book as we experienced ourselves editing it for your pleasure.
 
Gewicht: 600 g
Hersteller: Informator-Verlag
Breite 17 cm
Höhe  24,5 cm
Erscheinungsjahr    2022
Autor:GM Borislav Ivkov
Sprache:Englisch
Auflage:1
ISBN-13- 978-86-7297-132-3
Seiten :224
Einband: gebunden
 
 
INHALT :
004 System of Signs
005 Remembering Borislav Bora Ivkov
007 My Mentor and Friend - Bora Ivkov
009 Part 1 - Tactics
013 Unusual positions
023 The exibition of checkmates
045 The symphony of mistakes
069 Combinations
085 Part II - Strategy
087 The Razor's Edge
090 Preparations
096 Centralisation of Pieces
100 Squares and Points
106 Chess Principles
109 Part III - Parallels
111 The Pin
118 Discovered attack
125 A stroke of inspiration
128 Castling
131 Prokes
133 The Muse bishop
137 The Sobolevsky theme
140 The Geller motif
144 The checkmate picture from Bled
149 Zugzwang
155 The geometric motif
173 Striking similarity
179 Cosma's rook
182 Timman's pawns
185 The Reti manoeuvre
192 The almighty knight
197 The powerless knight
200 Cozio
202 Grigoriev
204 Queen sacrifice
206 Twin games
211 Perpetual check
214 Positive and negative chess photography
216 Twin mistakes
219 Reaching the goal