- Importance of strategy in chess
- Key concepts: center, open files, bishop pair
- Pawn structures: passed, hanging, majority, isolated
- Strategic principles: harmony, activity, restriction
- Prophylactic play and strategic patterns
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TranscriptEvery serious trainer must insist on strategy work because strategy will be a powerful and probably decisive weapon against players who neglected it in their own chess study. That was the author's motivation to write this book, aiming to present crucial elements and principles of strategy and to reveal its secrets to all chess players. After carefully studying the book, one will be fully equipped with strategic concepts and patterns, and will surely catch 'how it works' in a chess game.
The book introduces key concepts of chess strategy such as the center, open files, bishop pair, squares, space, and detailed insights into pawn structures like passed pawn, hanging pawns, pawn majority, doubled pawns, isolated pawns, backward pawn, pawn chains, pawn islands, and weaknesses. Furthermore, it elaborates on the principles of chess strategy, including harmony, activity and initiative, restriction, and prophylactic play.
From the Foreword by GM Dragoljub Jacimovic, it's clear that this book has been prepared for a long time, and being familiar with the author’s methodology and the huge number of games from which he selected the most instructive jewels, it truly believes that this work will be an exemplary book worthy of every praise and highly useful to players of different categories.
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