for Advanced Classes
Attacking Chess by Josh Waitzkin
Aggressive strategies
and inside moves
from the U.S. Junior Chess Champion
- Fundamental tactical methods:
- Pin
- Double attack
- Discovered check
- "Deflection"
- "Decoy" etc.
- Combinations based on smothered mate and weak back rank
- Smashing pawn cover and annihilation of defence
- Obstruction
Little Chess Partner
All recommended chess software for different platforms
- The opening:
- Classification of openings
- Fundamental principles of opening play
- The influence of the opening on the middlegame
- Strategy:
- The principles of realization of material advantage
- The middlegame principles
- Determination of immediate and future tasks
- Centralization
- The endgame:
- The role of the king in the endgame
- The significance of active pieces
- Pawn endings
- Queen against pawn
- Rook endings ("building a bridge" and other principles)
