Chess FundamentalsRandom House Puzzles & Games, 2006 - 209 pagini J.R. Capablanca was a World Chess Champion and one of the greatest players in chess history, yet he wrote very little about the game. Chess Fundamentals, though normally for the beginning player, contains valuable insights that will benefit players at all levels of understanding, including masters. Capablanca explains: ·How to obtain and nurture a passed pawn ·How to get and keep the initiative ·Cardinal rules for rook and pawn endings ·How to attack using knight as the main force ·How to cut off enemy pieces Chess Fundamentals is one of the jewels of chess literature. |
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First Principles Endings Middlegame | 3 |
Queen against Rook | 54 |
General Theory | 65 |
Openings | 77 |
Middlegame PlayPlacement of Pieces | 94 |
The Influence of a Hole | 103 |
A K RUBINSTEINJ R CAPABLANCA | 133 |
J R CAPABLANCAA BURN | 137 |
J R CAPABLANCAD JANOWSKI | 151 |
N DE FIRMIANP YOUNGWORTH | 169 |
61 | 180 |
G KASPAROVA KARPOV | 186 |
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advance the pawn axb3 black king Black resigns black rook Black's pawns Bxc3 Bxc6 Bxf6 Capablanca Caro-Kann Defense center pawns ch Kd7 ch Ke7 ch Kg6 chance chess cxd4 d4 square dark-squared diagonal diagram doubled pawn draw dxe5 e-pawn endgame ending EXAMPLE exchange exd4 exd5 fianchetto Fischer force fxe6 gxf6 hxg5 Î Î ÎÎ ÎÎÎ Indian Defense isolated pawn Karpov King's Indian Defense kingside pawns last move light-squared bishop maneuver mate middlegame Nf3 Nc6 Nimzo-Indian Defense Nxd4 Nxe4 open file opponent opponent's opposing king passed pawn pawn ahead perpetual check pieces Pirc Defense players principles Qf4 ch Queen's Gambit Declined queenside pawns Qxh7 Rc7 ch rook and pawns Ruy Lopez Rxa2 Rxc8 Rxd5 Rxe4 Rxh7 Sicilian Defense side simple strategy student Taimanov text move threat tttt ttt variations weak white king white knight White threatened White wins win a pawn 土土土