Best Lessons of a Chess Coach

by Sunil Weeramantry, Ed Eusebi

Overview

In the course of a game of chess, questions continually arise that test a player's reasoning skills. Questions such as:
• “Who has the better position?”• “Should I resolve the tension in the center?”• “How can I improve the placement of my pieces?”In this long-awaited extension of the classic Best Lessons of a Chess Coach, the reader is invited to take a seat in the classroom of a renowned chess teacher, and learn how to answer such questions while experiencing the beauty, logic, and artistry of great chess games. When Sunil Weeramantry lectures on the games of top grandmasters, one can imagine making decisions alongside them. When he lectures on his own games, one can also experience the personal excitement, disappointment, and satisfaction of a well-contested game of chess. The cumulative effect of studying these lessons is to give the aspiring player a wide range of tools with which to win.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936277902
Publisher:	Mongoose Press
Publication date:	08/01/2020
Edition description:	Extended Edition
Pages:	428
Sales rank:	528,308
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

FIDE Master Sunil Weeramantry is a nationally acclaimed educator and the Founder and Executive Director of the National Scholastic Chess Foundation. A two-time New York State Champion, Sunil is better known these days as the stepfather of GM Hikaru Nakamura, one of the world’s elite grandmasters. He is co-author, along with Alan Abrams and Robert McLellan, of Great Moves: Learning Chess Through History (Mongoose, 2017), a blended learning text that teaches chess and social studies. Ed Eusebi is a Candidate Master in both over-the-board and correspondence chess. He has served chess as a coach, organizer, tournament director, and website content editor.

Table of Contents

Introduction to This Edition ix

Preface x

Part A Outpost Squares 1

Lesson 1 Home away from Home 3

Smyslov - Rudakovsky 1945 (Sicilian Defense) 4

Lesson 2 Knight Music 23

Pugh - Weeramantry 1992 (King's Indian) 23

Illustrative Games A - Outpost Squares 45

A1 Boleslavsky-Lisitsin 1956 45

A2 Fischer - Gadia 1960 47

A3 Schlechter - John 1905 49

A4 Botvinnik - Tartakower 1936 51

A5 Tarrasch - Vogel 1910 53

A6 Short - Penrose 1977 56

A7 Alekhine - Capablanca 1927 58

A8 Pilnik - Geller l955 61

A9 So - Mahjoob 2007 63

Part B Weak Squares 69

Lesson 3 King on the March 71

Alekhine - Yates 1922 (Queen's Gambit Declined) 71

Lesson 4 A Real Together Feeling 95

Lamon - Weeramantry 1990 (Modern Defense) 95

Lesson 5 One to Remember 115

Harris - Weeramantry 1972 (Pirc Austrian Attack) 115

Illustrative Games B - Weak Squares 133

B1 Tarrasch - Réti 1922 133

B2 Alekhine - Yates 1923 135

B3 Short - Timman 1991 137

B4 Dobiáš - Podgorný 1952 139

B5 Karpov - Shirov 1992 140

B6 Taimanov - Najdorf 1953 142

B7 R. Byrne - Fischer 1963 145

B8 Fischer - Myagmarsuren 1967 146

B9 Gelfand - Andreikin 2014 148

B10 Weeramantry - Kumar 2004 150

B11 Kramnik - Van Wely 2008 151

B12 Graif - Ali Maranda 2019 154

Part C The initiative 165

Lesson 6 "Saw It - Went Home" 167

Steinitz - von Bardeleben 1895 (Giuoco Piano) 167

Lesson 7 Strike While the Knight Is Cold 193

Weeramantry - Goldberg 1991 (Sicilian Grand Prix Attack) 193

Lesson 8 A Missed Opportunity 209

Weeramantry - Hecht 1970 (Max Lange Attack) 209

Illustrative Games C - The Initiative 229

C1 Nimzowitsch - Alapin 1914 229

C2 Lasker- Bauer 1889 230

C3 Buehl - Weeramantry 1985 232

C4 Tal - Smyslov 1959 234

C5 Caruana - Berg 2008 236

C6 Larsen - Spassky 1970 237

C7 Keres - Bronstein 1965 239

C8 Fischer - Benko 1963 241

C9 Shirazi - Weeramantry 1988 242

C10 Krasenkow - Nakamura 2007 246

C11 Aronian - Anand 2013 247

C12 Adhiban - Dreev 2016 250

C13 Carlsen - Nakamura 2011 254

Part D Coordination and Control 261

Lesson 9 Playing with a Full Deck 263

Paulsen - Morphy 1857 (Four Knights Game) 263

Lesson 10 Three for the Lady 285

Weeramantry - Schlagenhauf 1977 (Pirc Defense) 285

Lesson 11 Connect-the-Dots 301

Weeramantry - Tamarkin 1991 (Caro-Kann) 301

Lesson 12 It's Never Over 325

Weeramantry - Urbaneja 1991 (Sicilian Grand Prix Attack) 325

Illustrative Games D - Coordination and Control 348

D1 Rotlewi - Rubinstein 1907 348

D2 D.Byrne - Fischer 1956 350

D3 Bareev - Kasparov 1991 354

D4 LCZero - Stockfish 2019 357

D5 Jinshin Bai - Ding Liren 2017 362

D6 Tseshkovsky - Kasparov 1978 365

D7 Weeramantry - Walton 1986 368

D8 Adams - Torre 1920 372

D9 Nakamura - Fluviá Poyatos 2007 376

D10 Wang Hao - Timofeev 2007 379

D11 Aronian - Kamsky 2008 382

D12 Harper - Zuk 1971 385

D13 Karpov - Unzicker 1974 388

D14 Artemiev - Hrácek 2019 392

Glossary 403

About the Authors 411