chess evolution 3 - Yusupov
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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).
Yusupov guides the reader using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
This final book of the series covers:
- Desperadoes
- Static advantages
- The comparison method
- Rook against two minor pieces
- Open games
- The minority attack
- Complicated Combinations
- Fortresses
- Complex positions
- The transition to the middlegame
- The bishop pair
- Shutting out a piece
- Playing against pieces
- Principles of rook endings
- Playing for traps
- Castling on opposite sides
- Pawn chains
- Transition from the opening to the ending
- Exchanging queens – the transition to the ending
- Outposts for knights
- Having a plan
- Pirc and Modern Defences
- Complex positions 2
- Queen endings
Who should read this book?
This book comes highly recommended for players with a rating of more than 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 of more than 1700 the series offers:
- Boost your chess 3
- Build up your chess 3
- Evolution 3