Chess Evolution 1 PDF

Chess evolution 1 is the third book in 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 World Champions 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 World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.

Contents

1 Combinations involving bishops

2 Diagonals

3 Queen sacrifices

4 Realizing a material advantage in a pawn ending

5 Realizing a material advantage

6 Attacking with queen and knight

7 The open games

8 Attacking with queen and rook

9 Forced Variations

10 Attacking with queen and bishop

11 Positional advantages

12 Bishop against pawns

13 Attacking with queen and pawn

14 Attacking

15 Attacking with rook and bishop

16 Knight against pawn

17 Attacking with rook and knight

18 Semi-open games

19 Combinations involving promotion

20 Mate in three moves

21 Mating nets in the endgame

22 The passed pawn

23 Combinations involving files

24 Queen against rook

Final test