Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters: Fundamentals of the Game - Softcover

Alburt, Lev

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393324524 ISBN 13: 9780393324525

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Synopsis

Increase your skill and understanding of chess with the tactics that have produced unparalleled Russian grandmasters. Russia's dominance in modern chess was founded on a uniquely successful program of chess instruction. Now this program has been streamlined and adapted for American readers in a pair of books that will help readers develop, step by step, from total novicehood to an enjoyable and competitive recreational level. Volume 1 covers the fundamentals of the game, from beginning strategies to energetic endgames. Learn from the start not just how the pieces move, but also where and why to move them. Volume 2 goes beyond the basics to cover advanced strategy, hard-hitting openings, and classic attack and defense tactics. Both books sharpen and test your chess skills with practical, educational "chessercizes" that make your movements more muscular. Advance in the game--and have fun doing it--using the techniques that produced a long line of Soviet champions.

About this title

About the Author

International Grandmaster Lev Alburt, three-time U.S. champion and former European champion, is one of the most sought-after chess teachers in the world. He lives in New York.

Larry Parr is former editor of Chess Life and the author of many articles on chess play and instruction.

From Booklist

Great is the disappointment to the library patron who browses for a chess instructional and finds only picked-over bones from the pre-Fischer, pre-Kasparov eras. These books by a U.S. champion and a chess magazine editor offer something more. A range of abilities, from novice to entrants in a local tournament, can learn tactics and strategies that improve their play. The authors drop the obsession with "book knowledge" about elaborate openings. More than 98 percent of games, they say, turn on tactical dangers and opportunities about two moves into the future, and for that distance of foresight, the Russian secrets the authors share consist of a series of questions players must ask themselves after each move. "Chessercizes," with hundreds of diagrams, provide practice for analyzing attacking combinations and defenses against them, from opening through endgame, making this a great contemporary resource. Including tips about computer programs. Gilbert Taylor

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0393324524
• ISBN 13: 9780393324525
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 286