chess evolution 1 - Yusupov

Yusupov's 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).

Artur Yusupov’s complete course of chess training guides the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles.

This first book in the Chess evolution series covers the following subjects:

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. he passed pawn 
23. Combinations involving files 
24. Queen against rook

Who should read this book? 
This book comes highly recommended for players with ratings of less than 1100.

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 of less than 1100 the series offers:

1. Build up your chess 1
2. Boost your chess 1
3. Evolution 1