Power Chess With Pieces: The Ultimate Guide to the Bishop Pair & Strong Knights
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9056911236 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 228 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"A collection of extremely well annotated games." -- ChessToday"Instructive for the serious player and a pleasure to read." -- Bill Kelleher, ChessCafe"This book should be savored, and time spent to learn the many lessons. Fantastically well annotated games, this collection is really hard to beat." -- David Surratt, ChessVille"Where Garry Kasparov likes to hide behind thick trees with variations, Timman always makes sure that the reader fully understands why the game develops the way it does." -- Harald Keilhack, Schach Magazine
How is one to proceed when one emerges from the opening with a strong knight and one?s opponent is stuck with a bad bishop? And is the bishop pair really as strong as they say? With his lucid style and practical approach, Jan Timman follows in the footsteps of his teachers Max Euwe and Mikhail Botvinnik.. Former world championship candidate Jan Timman deals, on the basis of countless examples encountered in his rich chess career, with themes like ?strong knight against bishop? and 'the dominant bishop pair?. In contrast to the opening or the endgame, the middlegame seems to offer little in the way of concrete starting-points for methodical study
Jan Timman has been one of the top players in the world for over twenty years. . He is also the author of several highly acclaimed chess books, and the editor-in-chief of New in Chess, the world's foremost chess magazine
Bringing the Middle into Focus Excellent analysis of highest level Grandmaster encounters illuminating the ongoing argument over the relative strenghts of the two minor pieces. The argument is staged in a series of games in which the two pieces are pitted against each other in the late middle-game/endgame stages. First the powers of the Knight are explored and then those of the bishop.This is not a light read, nor an introductory book to the game of chess, but rather a sublime and serious look into one of the more inscrutable aspects of the chess middlegame.. "Funny book about minor peaces" according to I. Knezovic. This book is my Funny book about minor peaces This book is my 3rd most favorite Timman book, after Curacao 1962 and Fischer World champion! That said, it means it is a preaty good one, coz this guy wrote like few dosens of books up to now. The theme of the book is not the novel one, countless of authors wrote about knight-bishop relation in various middlegame books, including Timman teacher dr. Max Euwe.So what I like in this book is a fresh view of the subject, especially the rarely talked idea of the position in which the dominance is focused on bishop and knight couple over the other min. rd most favorite Timman book, after Curacao 1962 and Fischer World champion! That said, it means it is a preaty good one, coz this guy wrote like few dosens of books up to now. The theme of the book is not the novel one, countless of authors wrote about knight-bishop relation in various middlegame books, including Timman teacher dr. Max Euwe.So what I like in this book is a fresh view of the subject, especially the rarely talked idea of the position in which the dominance is focused on bishop and knight couple over the other min. Piece Work Power Chess with Jan Robert J. Rasmussen Jan Timman, editor-in-chief of the Dutch magazine in English, "New In Chess," has always been an incisive author beginning with The Art of Chess Analysis and continuing through the more current, On The Attack: The Art of Attacking Chess According to the Modern Masters. His Power Chess with Pieces: The Ultimate Guide to the Bishop Pair & Strong Knights is no exception.Not as flashy as all-out attacks, these positional gems will teach you far more about how chess games are often won or lost: by the superiority or inferiority of one's minor pieces.