150+[6 ad] pages with diagrams, illustrations and bibliography. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. Winning by moving backward! Redeployment of pieces &usually Knights and Bishops) have helped champions such as Capablanca, Fischer, and Karpov to win many games. Most recently it was noted there were backward moves in the first 5 games of the match between Kasparov and Deeper Blue. Reuter (a senior master from Texas) charts ten types of strategies: redeploy and then attack; maneuvering; defense and then attack; forced redeployment; redeployment in the heat of battle; the back rank lineup; long range planning; the rook lift; and unusual redeployments. How redeployment figures into openings, the middlegame, and the endings is also discussed. Computers and their abilities for coming up with backward moves is also detailed in 60 exercises which humans are urged to take. Condition: Light edge wear else very good.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Winning with Reverse Chess Strategy

Publisher

Thinker's Press, Davenport, iA

Publication Date

1998

Language

English

ISBN 10

0938650955

ISBN 13

9780938650959

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

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Description: Winning by moving backward! Redeployment of pieces &usually Knights and Bishops) have helped champions such as Capablanca, Fischer, and Karpov to win many games. Most recetnly it was noted there were backward moves in the first 5 games of the match between Kasparov and Deeper Blue. Reuter (a senior master from Texas) charts ten types of strategies: redeploy and then attack; maneuvering; defense and then attack; forced redeployment; redeploymjent in the heat of battle; the back rank lineup; long range planning; the rook lift; and unusual redeployments. How redeployment figures into openings, the middlegame, and the endings is also

discussed. Computers and their abilities for comiung up with backward moves is also detailed in 60 exercises which humans are urged to take.

About the Author

Bill Reuter holds an MBA, and is currently in training for the legal profession. He is a chess teacher and coach, and an occasional lecturer at the Houston Chess Club. He recently led the Village Vikings elementary team to first place in the fiercely contested 1998 Texas Junior Championship.

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