1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices & Combinations

1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices & CombinationsEnhance Your Tactical Weapons! 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combination is the companion volume to Reinfeld's 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate. Of course each book can be taken on its own, but together they make a wonderful collection, and cover the full range of tactical chess. And they are now both available in 21st century editions, using modern algebraic notation. Reinfeld has arranged his quiz positions so that they fall into orderly

but the King’s Indian Defense has been tested extensively at the highest levels of chess and continues to be employed by numerous Grandmasters in today’s game

In chapters 1 and 2 GM Lemos also presents a detailed analysis of how the former World Chess Champions Capablanca and Alekhine used central control to win key games

attributing his successes in this phase of the game less to concrete knowledge about theoretical positions than to the understanding of general principles

One of the key factors here is that the recommended lines for Black usually involve the advance of the pawn from f7 to f6

Some famous resorts

Marshall played it twice

Hodson-Almasi

Square of a Pawn

In the first 19 videos on the DVD Ashley demonstrates both well-known and little known games in which a move on to a protected square plays an important part

This is a round-by-round account of the event

b3 - RE 20

Combinations are the central element in chess