Maneuvering: The Art of Piece Play

by Mark Dvoretsky

Overview

FIND THE BEST SQUARES FOR YOUR PIECES!

To a large extent, the level of any chessplayer's skill depends on his or her ability to discover and evaluate positional operations as quickly and correctly as possible. In this book, premier chess instructor and trainer Mark Dvoretsky examines one of the most important aspects of positional skill, namely the art of playing with pieces, of maneuvering and finding the best squares for your pieces.

Training your maneuvering skills will help you at every stage of the game — which is why among the exercises there are opening, middlegame and endgame positions, and not only those that are taken from practical games, but also studies.

The conscientious student, carefully working his or her way through this book, will help improve positional mastery and significantly enhance overall playing skill.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941270370
Publisher:	Russell Enterprises, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/25/2016
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Mark Dvoretsky is considered by many to be the premier chess instructor of our era. His works on the middlegame and endgame have set the standard by which other chess books are measured. He lives with his family in Moscow, Russia.

Table of Contents

Signs & Symbols 4

Foreword 5

Introduction 7

Warm-Up 26

Warm-Up: Solutions 31

Studies 39

Studies: Solutions 44

The Opening 56

The Opening: Solutions 60

The Endgame 70

The Endgame: Solutions 74

Queenless Positions 83

Queenless Positions: Solutions 87

Queen and Rooks 98

Queen and Rooks: Solutions 100

Middlegame Positions 106

Middlegame Positions: Solutions 114

Little Masterpieces 138

Little Masterpieces: Solutions 141

Examples with Additional Tasks 150

Examples with Additional Tasks: Solutions 157

Difficult Exercises 197

Difficult Exercises: Solutions 200