Author: Serge Desmarais
Date: 17:04:06 09/03/98
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On September 03, 1998 at 12:45:46, Leonard Nandkeshwar wrote: >I am looking for a good book to learn the middle game. I am a beginer, and >after I have played the opening, there I am wondering what is the next move. How >do I begin my attack. How do i evaluate my opponent weakness and strengths and >how do i defend against his strengths and how do it take advantage of his >weaknesses. Thanks for you help. > >Leonard Here are a few interesting books : 1- Chess Fundamentals by Jose Raul Capablanca Explains the basic principles of the opening phase in general without giving the details of a specific opening. He also explains the basic endings and comments a few games. Capablanca was World Champion of the World from 1921 to 1927 2- Common Sense in Chess, by Emmanuel Lasker This is a series of interesting lectures about various aspects of chess, by this Champion of the World (from 1894 to 1921). 3- The Art of the Middle Game by Paul Keres and Alexander Kotov This book explains several important aspects of the middlegame (Planning --this section was added by Golombek the translator, Strategy and tactics of attack on the King, How to defend difficult positions, Various pawn positions in the center and The art of analysis --to give you the titles of the different chapters). Keres was amongst the candidates to the World Championship several times and is known as having been a VERY dangerous attacker, as well as Kotov. 4- Play Like a Grandmaster by Alexander Kotov This book would answer your questions very well, giving the "laws" of chess first explained by the 1st official World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz. They are still true today. Mainly, you teaches you how to evaluate a position, when and what to attack or defend, how to develop your calculation's hability etc. There are other good books as well. Mainly, I would suggest you to avoid the ones that are too technical (giving masses of variations and subvariations to look at with not much or even no verbal explanations and to stick with the ones that develops and explains the ideas behind the moves with complete sentences and paragraphs. You could also download a free database program (Chessbase Light at WWW.Chessbase.com, for example) and have a look at some games in which the same first moves as in your last games were played and see, while taking your time, how these players treated the sme positions you resched in your games. Commented games are better. It is important not to LEARN moves by heart, the main thing being to "understand" the moves, instead. Serge Desmarais
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