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The Power Of Defense And The Art Of Counterattack In 64 Pictures: Untold Chess Secrets (K-5877)
K-5877
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A tale of 64 magical squares in 64 shrewdly created pictures. Many a book delved deep into the vast oceans of tactics, positional play and strategy, but very few dared to enter and master a notoriously elusive realm of defence in chess.
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| Language versions | English |
| Author / Authors | Nestorovic Dejan, Nikola |
| Publisher | Chess Informant / Informator-Verlag |
| Year of Publication | 1st edition 2020 |
| Pages | 349 |
| ISBN | 9788672971095 |
| Hardcover | Yes |
| Paperback | No |
| Downloadable | No |
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In this highly instructive tome the authors tried to accomplish several demanding goals. To uncover many of the secrets that remain hidden so very often, to tackle the most difficult area of chess skill – defence, and finally to teach a great number of ambitious chess-players helping them to improve their knowledge in this important area of chess expertise.
We present you the book by GM Nikola Nestorovic, and his father IM Dejan Nestorovic with firm belief that you will appreciate many hours of their hard work and devotion to this intriguing topic. The games presented in this tome are both recent and older ones, played by the chess elite and their lower rated peers, but without exception instructive, deeply and diligently analysed for your reading and learning pleasure.
You learned to attack – now it is time to sharpen your defensive tools!
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Content
003 Editor-in-chief’s Foreword
005 A Word from the Authors
010 System of signs
Modern gladiators
013 Counterattack by sacrificing several pawns
A. Grischuk 2777 – K. Alekseenko 2698
022 Counterattack by sacrificing several pawns
J. van Foreest 2667 – Pr. Nikolić 2580
032 Counterattack on open files
Raja Harshit 2472 – Ba. Jobava 2620
037 Counterattack by evacuating the king
J.-K. Duda 2758 – V. Artemiev 2731
042 Counterattack with queens
W. So 2765 – Vis. Anand 2758
047 Asymmetrical counterattack
L. Aronian 2758 – N. Abasov 2632
051 Counterattack on files and diagonals
E. Atalik 2464 – Vladislav Kovalev 2661
057 Counterattack with the king
Ba. Jobava 2617 – D. Howell 2694
062 Counterattack by exchanging pieces
A. Inđić 2638 – Ki. Georgiev 2577
066 Counterattack by regrouping of pieces
J. Cori Tello 2671 – A. Firouzja 2702
074 Counterattack with a sacrifice
S. Mamedyarov 2767 – T. Radjabov 2758
080 Counterattack with perpetual check
A. Inđić 2617 – V. Sanal 2535
085 Counterattack by capturing pawns
Wang Hao 2726 – Ding Liren 2812
091 Sudden counterattack
Ch. Natsidis 2346 – Y. Vovk 2564
094 Counterattack on the kingside
M. Carlsen 2840 – Sergey Karjakin 2775
099 Counterattack with the queen and the rook
S. Del Rio de Angelis 2520 – Miloš Stanković 2406
105 Counterattack through the center
J.-K. Duda 2678 – P. Eljanov 2741
111 Counterattack with pieces in full play
F. Elsness 2466 – V. Sanal 2533
114 Counterattack with the knight
S. Ter-Sahakyan 2605 – Ig. Kovalenko 2659
The knights of XXI century
123 Passive (moderate) counterattack
J. D. Williams 2326 – D. Swiercz 2646
127 Counterattack by pinning a piece
A. Fejzullahu 2359 – Y. Pelletier 2568
131 Counterattack with the bishop
S. Movsesian 2667 – V. Ivanchuk 2739
137 Counterattack via dark squares
Ch. Wallis 2346 – V. Papin 2510
144 Material counterattack
Daniil Dubov 2629 – H. Nezad 2396
147 Counterattack via files
V. Kramnik 2783 – A. Grischuk 2792
154 Counterattack on the queenside
Vis. Anand 2775 – M. Carlsen 2870
159 Counterattack with pawns
Z. Almási 2689 – E. Inarkiev 2688
163 Counterattack via the central squares
Yu Yangyi 2607 – R. Jumabayev 2555
172 Counterattack on the first rank
Hi. Nakamura 2733 – Y. Shulman 2613
174 Counterattack with turnarounds
F. Vallejo Pons 2708 – Bo. Vučković 2630
182 Counterattack by sacrificing an exchange
Hi. Nakamura 2715 – V. Kramnik 2772
187 Counterattack with bishops
S. Movsesian 2716 – R. Ponomariov 2727
191 Counterattack by a pawn break (e5)
M. Carlsen 2775 – T. Radjabov 2744
201 Counterattack by sacrificing a pawn on the b4-square
E. Tomashevsky 2646 – A. Morozevich 2755
205 Counterattack by giving checks
Z. Kožul 2616 – H. Stević 2495
208 Counterattack with the bishops of opposite colour
Ni Hua 2681 – D. Jakovenko 2735
217 Counterattack with the queen and bishops
V. Iordăchescu 2584 – M. Draško 2552
224 Counterattack by sacrificing a rook
P. Svidler 2732 – A. Dreev 2607
Pearls don't lose their luster
233 Tactical counterattack
L. Bruzón Batista 2669 – J. Timman 2607
236 Counterattack with return of material
S. E. Collins 2387 – Vl. Georgiev 2596
240 Counterattack on the eighth rank
D. Velimirović 2471 – R. Vulinović 2224
242 Accidental counterattack
Y. Pelletier 2587 – V. Bologan 2627
248 Counterattack with the rook
Lj. Ljubojević 2600 – J. Nunn 2605
254 Counterattack by sacrificing the queen
A. Shirov 2685 – V. Kramnik 2710
264 Counterattack on the sixth rank
L. Oll 2595 – Ki. Georgiev 2660
264 Counterattack on the first rank
A. Beliavsky (2645) – G. Kasparov (2750)
273 Counterattack with pawn breaks
B. Spassky 2630 – V. Korchnoi 2665
280 Counterattack with pieces
V. Savon – M. Tal
A moment of glory
289 Counterattack on diagonals
Maria Manakova 2237 – Teodora Injac 2223
294 Counterattack on the fourth rank
M. Pečurica 2324 – St. Radović 2026
296 Counterattack with a passed pawn
G. Vučinić 2396 – M. Nenezić 2522
299 Counterattack by capturing material
G. Della Morte 2362 – S. Slipak 2437
303 Counterattack via "geometric" squares
A. Bryn 2076 – Di. Marković 1661
306 Counterattack with pawns
M. Góngora Reyes 2454 – E. Fernández Romero 2449
310 Forced counterattack
Ta. Mészáros 2239 – Zs. Szilágyi 2274
From the maker's mind
315 Counterattack with the queen and knight
G. M. Todorović 2401 – N. Nestorović 2466
317 Counterattack with knights
N. Nestorović 2468 – J. Tomczak 2622
323 Counterattack on the "h" file
D. Antón Guijarro 2639 – N. Nestorović 2455
327 Counterattack on the "a" file
N. Nestorović 2498 – F. Corrales Jimenez 2517
330 Positional counterattack
N. Pezelj 2457 – D. Nestorović 2340
334 Counterattack with a pawn
B. Damljanović 2566 – N. Nestorovicć 2427
338 Counterattack on the second rank
I. Miladinović 2583 – D. Nestorović 2422
342 Counterattack with the queen
N. Tošić – D. Nestorović
344 Counterattack by unexpected tactical stroke
349 Index