Boost your Chess 2 - Yusupov
Yusupov's 9-part series, Boost your chess, Build up your chess and Evolution series is the 2009 winner of the Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Mark Dvoretsky in 2nd and 3rd place).
This second book in the series continues beyond the basics with quality material presented in a systematic fashion.
- Attacking the king
- The open file
- Minor tactics
- Opening repertoire for White the French Defense
- Simple rook endings
- Fighting against the pawn center
- Trapping pieces
- Calculating short variations
- Weak points
- Line blocking
- Opening repertoire for Black against 1.d4
- Simple rook endings 2
- Blocking combinations
- The bishop pair
- Typical mistakes in calculating variations
- Removing the defense
- Good and bad bishops
- Closed openings
- Line clearing
- Endgame technique
- Blockade
- Dragging the king out
- Reti/English Opening
- Typical mistakes in the endgame
This book comes highly recommended for players with ratings between 1300 and 1700.
The book forms part of a 9-part series that covers (1) the fundamentals, (2) beyond the basics and (3) mastery. For players with ratings between 1300 and 1700 ratings.
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Delivery costs will be added to your invoice.
When we receive your online order, an Invoice will be emailed to you. Payments can be made by EFT; and by Zapper or Snapscan, upon request.
Shipping
Orders are delivered by a courier or can be collected from House of Chess.
If we receive your payment before 11:30am, the order will be shipped on the same day. Deliveries to Pretoria and Johannesburg are most likely delivered the next business day. Generally, we deliver to all major towns within 2 to 3 business days, while deliveries to more remote areas can take up to 5 business days. Regardless of how remote your location is in Southern Africa, we proudly deliver to any destination.
Delivery costs will be added to your invoice.
Payments
When we receive your online order, an Invoice will be emailed to you. Payments can be made by EFT; and by Zapper or Snapscan, upon request.