Sacking the Citadel: The History, Theory and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice - Softcover

Edwards, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888690747 ISBN 13: 9781888690743

Publisher: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2011

Synopsis

Four hundred years ago, an Italian chess master, Gioachino Greco, discovered an

extraordinary bishop sacrifice on h7 that often leads to checkmate or a

significant material advantage. More amazing still, he recorded the idea!

This book chronicles the history of that idea, what many have come to

call the Classic Bishop sacrifice, from its discovery and formative

years through its remarkably complex uses in modern chess.

During the past century, several annotators have attempted to explain

the circumstances under which the sacrifice works, and when it doesnt.

Edwards reviews their efforts and, in a spectacular ninth chapter,

provides a modern classification. His taxonomy of the sacrifice is

comprehensive and full of pleasant surprises for beginners and even accomplished

masters.

This book represents a thematic approach to chess tactics and strategy.

Careful readers will suddenly discover that they are able, quickly and

accurately, to see 5-10 moves or more ahead in these lines.

Here you will find hundreds of carefully annotated games. Learn from

brilliant moves and strategies; and take full advantage of others

instructive mistakes.

About this title

About the Author

Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999. He became a Senior International Master (SIM) in 1999. His ICCF rating of 2580 placed him in the top 200 correspondence chess players worldwide. Jon is an accomplished chess teacher and author. His book, The Chess Analyst (1999) chronicled his success in the US championship. His photographically based chess primer, Teach Yourself Visually: Chess (2006), is helping many thousands of young learners.

Review

John Donaldson

A good example of how chess literature has progressed can be seen in noted correspondence player Jon Edward's new book SACKING the CITADEL. This work is light years more comprehensive and focused than earlier treatments of the theme.

Edition details

• Publisher: Russell Enterprises, Inc.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1888690747
• ISBN 13: 9781888690743
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400