Winning the Won Game : Lessons From the Albert Brilliancy Prizes

Every chessplayer who aspires to achieve chess mastery must learn the techniques for winning a won game. It is the perennial problem which confronts players at all levels of play. This book will enable chessplayers to better recognize their positional advantages and the ways in which these can be used in order to bring them closer to victory. It also provides many instructive examples of using this knowledge to reach a faster and more spectacular victory. Mr. Paul M. Albert, Jr. has been donating over $2000 per year to the most brilliantly played at both the Women's and Men's United States Championships for over 20 years. This book presents, describes and illustrates the most significant examples, with emphasis on what can be learned from them in terms of winning a won game. img001 1 img003_1L 2 img003_2R 3 img004_1L 4 img004_2R 5 img005_1L 6 img005_2R 7 img006_1L 8 img006_2R 9 img007_1L 10 img007_2R 11 img008_1L 12 img008_2R 13 img009_1L 14 img009_2R 15 img010_1L 16 img010_2R 17 img011_1L 18 img011_2R 19 img012_1L 20 img012_2R 21 img013_1L 22 img013_2R 23 img014_1L 24 img014_2R 25 img015_1L 26 img015_2R 27 img016_1L 28 img016_2R 29 img017_1L 30 img017_2R 31 img018_1L 32 img018_2R 33 img019_1L 34 img019_2R 35 img020_1L 36 img020_2R 37 img021_1L 38 img021_2R 39 img022_1L 40 img022_2R 41 img023_1L 42 img023_2R 43 img024_1L 44 img024_2R 45 img025_1L 46 img025_2R 47 img026_1L 48 img026_2R 49 img027_1L 50 img027_2R 51 img028_1L 52 img028_2R 53 img029_1L 54 img029_2R 55 img030_1L 56 img030_2R 57 img031_1L 58 img031_2R 59 img032_1L 60 img032_2R 61 img033_1L 62 img033_2R 63 img034_1L 64 img034_2R 65 img035_1L 66 img035_2R 67 img037_1L 68 img037_2R 69 img038_1L 70 img038_2R 71 img039_1L 72 img039_2R 73 img040_1L 74 img040_2R 75 img041_1L 76 img041_2R 77 img042_1L 78 img042_2R 79 img043_1L 80 img043_2R 81 img044_1L 82 img044_2R 83 img045_1L 84 img045_2R 85 img046_1L 86 img046_2R 87 img047_1L 88 img047_2R 89 img048_1L 90 img048_2R 91 img049_1L 92 img049_2R 93 img050_1L 94 img050_2R 95 img051_1L 96 img051_2R 97 img052_1L 98 img052_2R 99 img053_1L 100 img053_2R 101 img054_1L 102 img054_2R 103 img055_1L 104 img055_2R 105 img056_1L 106 img056_2R 107 img057_1L 108 img057_2R 109 img058_1L 110 img058_2R 111 img059_1L 112 img059_2R 113 img060_1L 114 img060_2R 115 img061_1L 116 img061_2R 117 img062_1L 118 img062_2R 119 img063_1L 120 img063_2R 121 img064_1L 122 img064_2R 123 img065_1L 124 img065_2R 125 img066_1L 126 img066_2R 127 img067_1L 128 img067_2R 129 img068_1L 130 img068_2R 131 img069_1L 132 img069_2R 133 img070_1L 134 img070_2R 135 img071_1L 136 img071_2R 137 img072_1L 138 img072_2R 139 img073_1L 140 img073_2R 141 img074_1L 142 img074_2R 143 img075_1L 144 img075_2R 145 img076_1L 146 img076_2R 147 img077_1L 148 img077_2R 149 img078_1L 150 img078_2R 151 img079_1L 152 img079_2R 153 img080_1L 154 img080_2R 155 img081_1L 156 img081_2R 157 img082_1L 158 img082_2R 159 img083_1L 160 img083_2R 161 img084_1L 162 img084_2R 163 img085_1L 164 img085_2R 165 img086_1L 166 img086_2R 167 img088_1L 168 img088_2R 169 img089_1L 170 img089_2R 171 img090_1L 172 img090_2R 173 img091_1L 174 img091_2R 175 img092_1L 176 img092_2R 177 img093_1L 178 img093_2R 179 img094_1L 180 img094_2R 181 img095_1L 182 img095_2R 183 img096_1L 184 img096_2R 185 img097_1L 186 img097_2R 187 img098_1L 188 img098_2R 189 img099_1L 190 img099_2R 191 img100_1L 192 img100_2R 193 img101_1L 194 img101_2R 195 img102_1L 196 img102_2R 197 img103_1L 198 img103_2R 199 img104_1L 200 img104_2R 201 img105_1L 202 img105_2R 203 img107_1L 204 img107_2R 205 img108_1L 206 img108_2R 207 img109_1L 208 img109_2R 209 img110_1L 210 img110_2R 211 img002 212

All players who aspire to chess mastery need to learn the techniques for winning a won game: that means they must better recognize the positional advantages they already have and know how to use them to get closer to victory. The examples laid out here will help them do exactly that. Each one comes from the most brilliantly played games at the Women’s and Men’s United States Championships in the past 20 years—games that have won a special $2,000 prize for excellence, donated by Paul M. Albert Jr. Players at all levels will benefit from the moves presented, described, and illustrated here, all with illuminating commentary.