Chess Evolution 2 PDF

Chess Evolution 2 continues Yusupov’s award-winning instructional series. The Fundamentals series shows players the basic ideas they should know, then the Beyond the Basics series sets off on the road to mastery. 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 Combined attack on the seventh and eighth ranks

2 Exchanging

3 Attacking the king

4 Opening repertoire against 1.c4

5 Don’t allow counterplay!

6 A lead in development

7 Exploiting weaknesses

8 Calculating short variations

9 Better pawn structures

10 The pawn phalanx

11 Opening repertoire (Black vs. the Reti/White vs. the King’s Indian)

12 Don’t be too hasty!

13 The double bishop sacrifice

14 Pawn play

15 Active moves

16 Intermediate checks

17 Improving the position of your pieces

18 Pawn sacrifices in the opening

19 Intermediate moves

20 The principle of two weaknesses

21 An advantage in space

22 Counter-blows

23 The centre in the opening

24 The correct exchanges

Final test