chess evolution 3 - 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).

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:

1. Desperadoes
2. Static advantages 
3. The comparison method 
4. Rook against two minor pieces 
5. Open games 
6. The minority attack
7. Complicated Combinations 
8. Fortresses 
9. Complex positions 
10. The transition to the middlegame 
11. The bishop pair 
12. Shutting out a piece 
13. Playing against pieces 
14. Principles of rook endings 
15. Playing for traps 
16. Castling on opposite sides 
17. Pawn chains 
18. Transition from the opening to the ending 
19. Exchanging queens – the transition to the ending 
20. Outposts for knights 
21. Having a plan 
22. Pirc and Modern Defences 
23. Complex positions 2 
24. 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:

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