Edmar Mednis

Reprenant les techniques qu'il emploie dans sa classe comme dans ses le ons particuli res, Edmar Mednis nous offre, ici, un Comment bien jouer l'ouverture de premi re qualit . D'abord parce que l'ouverture est une phase d cisive du jeu. Ensuite parce que, non content de pr senter les bonnes ouvertures, il nous montre pourquoi elles sont efficaces. Le principe de l'ouvrage est simple: d'abord, les l ments constitutifs et les objectifs propres chaque ouverture; ensuite l' tude de tous les coups possibles. Deux ouvertures essentielles, la Sicilienne et le Gambit de la Dame, sont particuli rement analys es et comment es. Sans que, pour autant, soient n glig s les autres aspects - mauvais coups: comment ne pas les jouer; le roque: t t ou tard; le jeu du pion... Excellent pour le d butant, ce livre rafra chira utilement les connaissances de base du joueur confirm .

This instructive book for competitive players, based on Edmar Mednis' classic Practical Endgame Lessons, provides the reader with a wealth of useful instruction in endgame play, reinforced by a a series of tests presented as simulations of tournament play. Explains the fundamental principles of endgame play . Deals with all standard types of endgame: pawn endings, bishop endings, rook endings, etc . Contains more that twenty test endings to help develop your skills . Uses many examples by the world's leading endgame exponents: Smyslov, Karpov, Korchnoi, etc. Grandmaster Edmar Mednis is one of the world's leading endgame exerts. He is a regular contributor to Chess Life magazine and is author of How to be a complete Tournament Player, From Opening to the Endgame and From the Middlegame into the Endgame. International Master Colin Crouch is one of England's most highly regarded analysts and writers.

Compiled by three grandmasters and two international masters this scholarly treatise explains in depth the thinking behind a defence that has been a favourite of champions such as Capablanca, Botvinnik, Petrosian and Karpov. Even Kasparov has been known to use the Caro Kann on occasion, for example in one case to defeat Mikhail Tal.

Newly revised, enlarged edition of first book on great Russian chess master focuses on the tactics, strategy and even psychological approaches employed by Karpov in winning against Bronstein, Smyslov, Browne, Gligoric, Spassky, Korchnoi and other greats. 100 games analyzed simply and clearly, showing exactly how Karpov won. Over 300 chess diagrams.