What it Takes to Become a Grandmaster.

Becoming a Grandmaster is the ultimate aim for serious chess players, but whatever your chess abilities, this book will take you to the next level. Packed with tips, tricks and practical exercises aimed at players of all skill levels who aspire to greatness. Even an average chess player can find the same moves as a Grandmaster as much as 75 percent of the time. The difference is that only the Grandmaster can find the other 25 percent. This book identifies the kinds of moves and techniques that account for that 25 percent. Among the topics covered in the book are: Mysterious rook pawn moves, Tacking, Piece Nullification, “King Feeling,” and how to play for a win without risk. Written by one of our biggest-selling and best-loved chess authors, in his trademark chatty, accessible but always informative style, this book is filled with practical exercises and test games that will reveal the secrets of how to join chess's elite ranks. Intro Title Contents Introduction Chapter One Uber-Luft Bad Pawns Support Good Centers Risk Management Mystery Moves: Rooks I Pass Hidden Third Move Blunder Zone BOCs to Win Preserving Tension GMs Smell Zugzwang Quiz Chapter Two Endgame Anchors Hierarchy of Advantages Piece Nullification Mystery Moves: Rook Pawns Save the Redwoods GMs Shorten Games Unequal "Equal" Positions Overprotect Delayed Castling Trending Quiz Chapter Three GMs Doubt Their Computers Petrosian's Law Right Rook Space Counts Freezing the Center Mystery Moves: Endgame RP Push Timing. " ... But the Knight is More Clever"Multi-Goal Endgames Phase II Quiz Chapter Four Good-Bad Bishops Tacking Provoke! Impossible Moves Outcast Outposts Mystery Moves: Queen Permanent Pursuit Lasker Rooks Pre-Endgame Backward Ho Quiz Chapter Five Wing Chain Drawability Limits to Calculation Fischer Was Right It Takes a Lot to Lose Yes, Endgame Sacrifices King Feeling Bad Bishops Build Blockades The Inexpensive Exchange Sacrifice Enough Good Moves Are Good Enough Quiz Quiz Answers Copyright. "Becoming a Grandmaster is the ultimate aim for serious chess players, but whatever your abilities, this book will take you to the next level. Written by the every-popular chess writer Andrew Soltis, this book teaches you how to identify the kinds of moves and techniques that go the extra mile. Among the fifty principal topics covered in this book are: Risk Management, Preserving Tension, Mystery Moves, Hierarchy of Advantages, Tacking, Piece Nullification, Timing, Freezing the Center, Trending, Doubting the Computer -- and even Impossible Moves!"--Back cover The inside secrets to becoming a chess Grandmaster, explaining the additional techniques and strategies that take you to another level