Build Up Your Chess 3: Mastery

by Artur Yusupov

Overview

Artur Yusupov’s complete course of chess training stretches to nine volumes, guiding the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles.

The course is structured in three series with three levels. The Fundamentals level is the easiest one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players.

The various topics – Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, Endgames, Calculating Variations, and Openings – are spread evenly across the nine volumes, giving readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books.

This book is the first volume at the Mastery level.

The Build Up Your Chess series won the prestigious Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784830687
Publisher:	Quality Chess
Publication date:	08/07/2018
Series:	Yusupov's Chess School
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	312
Sales rank:	1,137,143
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Artur Yusupov was ranked third in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary World Champions Karpov and Kasparov. 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.

Table of Contents

Key to symbols used 4

Preface 5

Introduction 6

1 Combinations involving promotion 8

2 Evaluation of the position 20

3 Pawn endings 34

4 Rook against bishop 44

5 Opening repertoire for White with 1.d4 56

6 The isolated pawn 70

7 Playing against the isolated pawn 84

8 Simple tactics 96

9 The backward pawn 106

10 Bishop endings 116

11 French Defence 126

12 Training with studies 140

13 Blockade 150

14 Drawing combinations 162

15 Opposite-coloured bishops 170

16 Opening repertoire for White with 1.d4 (Part 2) 180

17 The elimination method 194

18 Hanging pawns 202

19 Playing against hanging pawns 216

20 Simple tactics 2 230

21 Doubled pawns 240

22 Opening repertoire for Black against 1.d4 254

23 The comparison method 268

24 Rook against knight 280

Final test 290

Appendices

Index of composers 300

Index of games 301

Recommended books 308

Editorial Reviews

"Each chapter starts with the introduction of a theme followed by progressively more difficult examples and finally exercises to solve with detailed solutions. Such an approach has been seen before but never as well done. One might ask why it is necessary to have such a high rated player write a book for less-advanced players? The answer is that Yusupov offers the rare combination of tremendous chess knowledge and the ability and desire to share it. This book will be useful to not only budding Masters to be, but especially those who coach them... Highly Recommended" IM John Donaldson, jeremysilman.com

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