Welling, Giddins - Side-Stepping Mainline Theory

Joli carnet broché pouvant contenir 50 de vos chefs d'oeuvre. Prix dégressifs Par 3 : 9,95 Par 10 : 30,00  

Système requis:
Pentium 300 Mhz, 64 Mo RAM, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, lecteur DVD-ROM, souris, carte son.

Un livre d exercices à résoudre (il y en a 600), mais un peu inhabituel, car il contient en plus des pièces classiques, des pièces spéciales mais aussi des cases spéciales,  destinées à pimenter le jeu. 314 pages

Every 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 my motivation to write this book, to present crucial elements and principles of strategy and to reveal its secrets to you, dear reader. After careful study of the book you will be fully equipped with strategic concepts, patterns and definitely you will catch “how it works” in chess game.
KEY CONCEPTS OF CHESS STRATEGY
(Center, Open lines, Bishop pair, Squares, Space)
PAWN STRUCTURES
(Passed pawn, Hanging pawns, Pawn majority, Doubled pawns,
Isolated pawns, Backward pawn, Pawn chains, Pawn Islands and weaknesses)
PRINCIPLES OF CHESS STRATEGY
(Harmony, Activity and Initiative, Restriction and Prophylactic play)
From the Foreword by GM Dragoljub Jacimovic:
I know 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, I truly believe that this work will be an exemplary book worthy of every praise and highly useful to players of different categories. 250 pages

Cinquième tome de la somme kasparovienne sur les grands joueurs de l'histoire - histoire toute récente ici, puisque les protagonistes sont Korchnoi et Karpov (on reviendra naturellement sur Anatoly dans le volume consacré à ses duels contre Kasparov). Toujours les mêmes qualités, toujours les mêmes défauts, et sans doute toujours le même succès - inutile de faire l'article. Mais n'oublions pas de relire aussi ce que les deux K ont écrit eux-mêmes...