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Instructive Chess Miniatures Alper Efe Ataman Lessons from 53 of the greatest short victories in chess history Contents Symbols Bibliography Foreword Game 1: The Evergreen Game – Anderssen-Dufresne Game 2: Inescapable Pins – Schulten-Morphy Game 3: The Opera Game – Morphy-Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard Game 4: Fury of the Hanging Queen – Reiner-Steinitz Game 5: Bishop or Queen? It Depends... – Knorre-Chigorin Game 6: Potential in a Cramped Position – Colburn-Blackburne Game 7: The Tarrasch Trap – Tarrasch-Marco Game 8: Square-Clearance – Steinitz-Von Bardeleben Game 9: Pawn-Grabbing in the Opening – Mieses-Chigorin Game 10: Rubinstein’s Heritage – Rotlewi-Rubinstein A Similar Game: Aronian-Anand Game 11: Undeveloped Queenside – Roesch-Schlage Game 12: Just Like a Magnet... – Ed.Lasker-Thomas Game 13: When the f-Pawn Marches... – Opočensky-Hrdina Game 14: Improving the Pieces – Capablanca-Fonaroff A Similar Game: Navara-M.Ivanov Game 15: A Game of Cat and Mouse – E.Adams-C.Torre Game 16: The Immortal Zugzwang Game – Sämisch-Nimzowitsch Game 17: Once the Tension has been Released – Rubinstein-Hirschbein Game 18: Open Up the Lines! – Glücksberg-Najdorf Game 19: Those Isolated Queen’s Pawns... – Botvinnik-Vidmar Game 20: Safety First! – Smyslov-Kottnauer Game 21: The Double Bishop Sacrifice – Kirilov-Furman Game 22: As Long as the King is Stuck in the Centre... – Spassky- Avtonomov A Similar Case: Gipslis-Darznieks Game 23: Weak Squares – Boleslavsky-Smyslov Game 24: Lack of Development – Soultanbéieff-Dubyna Game 25: When Everything Goes According to Plan – Freeman-Mednis Game 26: Prince Urusov’s Recipe – Neishtadt-Gipslis Game 27: Lining Up on the Third Rank – Nezhmetdinov-Kotkov Game 28: A Bolt from the Blue – Gaisert-I.Zaitsev Game 29: Let’s Bring the King to the Centre! – Taimanov-Polugaevsky Game 30: Fischer’s Provocation – Letelier-Fischer Game 31: Mobilizing the Pawns – Bronstein-Geller Game 32: In the Footsteps of Captain Evans – Fischer-Fine A Similar Motif: Linden-Maczuski Game 33: A Memorable Blockading Tactic – Fischer-Benko Game 34: The Wrong Strategy against Tal – Tal-Tringov Game 35: The Penalty for a Single Bad Move – Geller-Portisch Game 36: An Inspiring Manoeuvre – Rossolimo-Reissmann Game 37: When the Knight Takes the Stage... – Spassky-Petrosian Game 38: Playing with Reversed Colours – Dvoretsky-Damsky Game 39: ‘Chinese Torture’ – Liu Wenzhe-Donner Game 40: Firepower in the Critical Zone – Kasparov-Marjanović Game 41: Playing à la Petrosian... – Kasparov-Petrosian Game 42: An 11-Year-Old Girl – Costa-J.Polgar Game 43: Opening a Dangerous File – Watson-Meduna Game 44: A Sacrifice to be Proud of – Handke-Murdzia Game 45: Another Fabulous Blocking Idea – J.Polgar-Berkes A Similar Case: Forintos-Zedek Game 46: The Aura of Magnus Carlsen – Hammer-Carlsen Game 47: The Rook’s Breathtaking Performance – Erdogdu – Shanava Game 48: Piece-Play on the Kingside – Howell-Ashton Game 49: The Power of the Zwischenzug – Friedel-De Jong Game 50: A Terrifying (K)nightmare! – Rublevsky-Zude Game 51: A Petroff Classic – Anand-Kasimdzhanov Game 52: The Duel of the Veterans – Cebalo-Vasiukov Game 53: Opera in St. Louis – So-Kasparov Supplementary Games Index of Players Index of Openings Copyright Information About the Author About Gambit Publications About Gambit Chess Studio Other Gambit Titles on Chess Studio and Kindle Symbols + check ++ double check x captures # checkmate !! brilliant move ! good move !? interesting move ?! dubious move ? bad move ?? blunder 0-0 castles kingside 0-0-0 castles queenside 1-0 The game ends in a win for White ½-½ The game ends in a draw 0-1 The game ends in a win for Black Ch Championship (n) nth match game (D) see next diagram Bibliography Books Attack and Defence, Mark Dvoretsky and Artur Yusupov, Batsford 1998 Beating 1 e4 e5 – A Repertoire for White in the Open Games, John Emms, Everyman 2010 Build Up Your Chess 2, Artur Yusupov, Quality Chess 2008 Chess Brilliancy, Yakov Damsky, Everyman 2002 Chess Training for Post-Beginners, Yaroslav Srokovski, New in Chess 2014 Chinese School of Chess, Liu Wenzhe, Batsford 2002 Garry Kasparov’s Greatest Chess Games Volume 1, Igor Stohl, Gambit Publications 2005 Judit Polgar Teaches Chess 1: How I Beat Fischer’s Record, Judit Polgar, Quality Chess 2012 The Mammoth Book of the World’s Greatest Chess Games (3rd edition), Graham Burgess, John Nunn and John Emms, Constable and Robinson 2010 Mastering Opening Strategy, Johan Hellsten, Everyman 2012 Satrançta Sistematik Antrenman (Das Systematische Schachtraining – Edition Olms), Sergiu Samarian, Inkilap Kitabevi 1991 Starting Out: King’s Indian Attack, John Emms, Everyman 2005 Periodicals Inside Chess (various issues) New in Chess (various issues) Digital Sources Mega Database 2014, ChessBase GmbH www.chessgames.com Ustalar Nasil Kazaniyor 1-5 (How Masters Win 1-5), Selim Gürcan, www.satrancokulu.com Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
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