Boost your Chess 1 continues Artur Yusupov’s Fundamentals series, helping players to build their skills on solid foundations. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.

Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary Karpov and Kasparov. He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship.

In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from current World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.

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Winner of the 2009 Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Mark Dvoretsky in 2nd and 3rd place).

Content:

004 Key to symbols used

005 Preface

006 Introduction

008 1 The windmill

016 2 Pawn weaknesses

026 3 Back rank combinations

034 4 Exploiting weaknesses

046 5 The 7th rank

056 6 Fortresses

066 7 The pawn wedge

076 8 Opening traps

086 9 The use of traps

096 10 Stalemate combinations

106 11 The semi-open file

118 12 Mate with bishop and knight

128 13 Combinations involving files

140 14 Outposts

152 15 Combinations involving diagonals

160 16 Elementary endgames

170 17 Combinations with knights

180 18 The principles behind mobilization

190 19 Perpetual check

208 20 Mate in two moves

208 21 Combinations with the major pieces

218 22 Coordination of the pieces

228 23 Combinations with knights 2

246 24 Zugzwang

246 Final test

Appendices

256 Index of composers

257 Index of games

265 Recommended books