Your Jungle Guide To Unbalancing Your Opponents: Tips & Tricks of Young Chess Guns

by Derakhshani

Overview

This book in front of you assists all players in their efforts to improve, and along their way, our young chess guns provided fresh insights how to trap and trick your opponent in the opening and early middlegame. With the many computer-assisted learning tools available, the player’s capacity to improve is limitless. This book offers the reader an insider’s candid view of how to unbalance the game in the modern age of chess.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789464201314
Publisher:	Thinkers Publishing
Publication date:	12/14/2021
Series:	Your Jungle Guide
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dorsa and Borna were born in Tehran, Iran. Dorsa learnt the moves at the age of two and played in her first tournament when she was seven, winning her first national championship (U-8 girls). By the age of fourteen she was winning international titles such as Asian Youth Champion three times. She gained her WIM, WGM and IM titles by the age of eighteen. She became a FIDE Trainer in 2016, and is still the youngest FT in the world. She now lives in and represents the USA, and won bronze in the US Women's Championship in 2020. She is studying biology at St Louis University, playing for the SLU chess team and teaching at St Louis Chess Club. 

Borna also learnt chess at a young age and was the youngest participant in the World Youth Championship in 2007. He won multiple national championships in Iran and silver medal twice in the Asian Youth Championship. He has also won several youth opens such as Biel, Abu Dhabi and Gibraltar.

He now lives in the UK. He has won the British U-16 and U-18 championships, taken silver in the British U-21 championship and represented the UK national team in the 2019 European Team Youth Championship where he took silver on board two. He is now an FM and plays for Wood Green in the 4NCL.

Table of Contents

Key to Symbols 8

Biography 9

Foreword Cemil Can Ali Marandi 11

Preface 12

Part I Opening 15

Chapter 1 Traps 17

Chapter 2 Take Your Prep Seriously! 45

Chapter 3 Too Early to Chase Pawns 89

Part II Middlegame 113

Chapter 4 Great Sacrifices 115

Chapter 5 King Safety 157

Chapter 6 Turning Water into Wine 191

Chapter 7 Grab It While You Can! 229

Part III Endgame 255

Chapter 8 Tricks 257

Chapter 9 Grind till the End 277

Chapter 10 Stay Alert! 303

Part IV Psychology in Chess 337

Chapter 11 Beyond Chess Skills 339

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

One of the best experiences about being a chess player is that we get to travel the world to play this amazing game and make memories with people whom we can reconnect with at tournaments thanks to our mutual love for chess. I met Dorsa and Borna at one of these tournaments. Chess has brought lots of friends into my life and Dorsa is one of them. I have known her since 2013, but got to know her better in 2017 at Saint Louis Universitywhere I was doing a degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. We have spent countless hours together traveling from one tournament to another and during team training. We have bonded well, and I have seen her grow here at SLU. Our friendship is forever. Apart from chess and college life, one more thing connects Dorsa and me – food! We are both big fans of Persian cuisine. There are a lot of similarities between it and Turkish cuisine.                

One thing I really like about this book is how the young siblings have brought together such crucial yet often overlooked aspects of the game in such a fun and easy-going format. As a GM there were many points throughout that I could relate to and perhaps even do better at in the future thanks to their book! If you want to improve your chess, this is your go-to book as the siblings have covered some fascinating contents. 

 Cemil Can Ali Marandi Grandmaster, five-time European Youth Champion, Turkish Chess Olympiad player