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Chess Pattern Recognition for Beginners by Arthur van de Oudeweetering (K-5561)
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Pattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement. It helps you to quickly grasp the essence of a position on the board and find the most promising continuation.
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| Language versions | English |
| Author / Authors | Arthur van de Oudeweetering |
| Publisher | New In Chess |
| Year of Publication | 1st edition 2018 |
| Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 978-90-5691-803-3 |
| Hardcover | No |
| Paperback | Yes |
| Downloadable | No |
| Width | 17 cm / 6.69 inch |
| Height | 24 cm / 9.45 inch |
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In his instant classics Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition (2014) and Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition (2016) International Master Arthur van de Oudeweetering presented building blocks for experienced club players which often involved notable exceptions to a set of fundamental guidelines. To appreciate these books you had to know these basic principles.
Chess Pattern Recognition for Beginners provides this knowledge. It teaches the most important patterns you need to know in order to develop and mobilize your pieces, manoeuvre your pawns into positions of strength, put pressure on your opponent, attack the enemy king, and execute standard sacrifices to get the initiative.
Ambitious beginners and post-beginners who study this book will soon experience a significant improvement in their results.
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Content
006 Explanation of symbols
007 Foreword by Vladimir Chuchelov
009 Preface
013 Part I - Typical pawns and pieces
016 Chapter 1 - The lingering king
024 Chapter 2 - Queen in trouble
031 Chapter 3 - Rook(s) on the seventh rank
038 Chapter 4 - Botvinnik’s fearsome bishop
044 Chapter 5 - Kasparov’s favourite
051 Chapter 6 - Fischer’s knight
058 Chapter 7 - Opposites are not equal
064 Chapter 8 - Cousins from a distance
072 Chapter 9 - IDP: isolated doubled pawn
079 Chapter 10 - A central striker
086 Chapter 11 - Central supremacy
093 Exercises Part I
097 Part II - When pawns meet
099 Chapter 12 - Reaching for the hook
105 Chapter 13 - When Harry meets g6
111 Chapter 14 - Deceptive symmetry after the IQP
120 Chapter 15 - Breaking free
127 Chapter 16 - lank attack!
135 Part III - When to exchange and when not to
137 Chapter 17 - King of all exchanges
145 Chapter 18 - Along the open file
153 Chapter 19 - What remains: towards a good knight versus a bad bishop
162 Chapter 20 - The ace of space
171 Part IV - Sacrifices – the classics
173 Chapter 21 - Bishop takes h7
178 Chapter 22 - The Soviet sac
185 Chapter 23 - The silent knight sac
192 Chapter 24 - From Morphy to Magnus
199 Chapter 25 - Capa’s bishop sac
209 Exercises Parts II, III and IV
213 Solutions
230 Epilogue
235 Index of players
238 Index of openings
239 Bibliography