50 Strategic Techniques

Fifty strategic techniques illustrated by classic games.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Vanishing Move
3. The Reserve Passed Pawn
4. Opening the File
5. Breakwater
6. The Illusory Pawn Sacrifice
7. Triangle Attack
8. The f3-e4/f6-e5 Barrier
9. The g6 Exchange
10. Evacuating the King
11. Alekhine's Exchange
12. Geller's Setup
13. The Cover
14. Botvinnik's Method
15. Nimzowitsch's Castling
16. The Castle
17. Ng6(Ng3) - bad
18. Capablanca's Riddle
19. Imitating the Exchange
20. The Extra Piece
21. Weakness of a Square Complex
22. Rook Placement
23. Centralizing the Rook
24. Outpost I
25. Outpost II
26. Switching Off the Bishop
27. Restricting the Bishop's Mobility
28. A Cage for the Bishop
29. The Bad Bishop
30. Transferring the Bishop
31. Capablanca's Rules
32. Switching Off the Knight
33. Restricting the Knight's Mobility
34. Switching Off the Rook
35. Boleslavsky's Maneuver
36. Removing the Cover
37. Attack on the h-file
38. Centralizing the Knight
39. The Réti Battery
40. The Smyslov Battery
41. The Lasker Battery
42. Two Weaknesses
43. A Cozy Spot for the Queen
44. Giving Way to the Pawn
45. Borisenko's Prophylaxis
46. Botvinnik's Discovery
47. Opposite-Colored Bishops
48. Artificial Castling
49. Blackburne's Ram
50. Rubinstein's Maneuver
51. Preemptive Strike

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