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50 Strategic Techniques

Fifty strategic techniques illustrated by classic games.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Vanishing Move
  3. 1.2
  4. 1.9
  5. The Reserve Passed Pawn
  6. Opening the File
  7. Breakwater
  8. 4.6
  9. The Illusory Pawn Sacrifice
  10. Triangle Attack
  11. The f3-e4/f6-e5 Barrier
  12. hg-fg
  13. 8.2
  14. Evacuating the King
  15. Alekhine's Exchange
  16. Geller's Setup
  17. 12.1
  18. Botvinnik's Method
  19. Nimzowitsch's Castling
  20. 14.2
  21. The Castle
  22. Ng6(Ng3) - bad
  23. Capablanca's Riddle
  24. Imitating the Exchange
  25. The Extra Piece
  26. Weakness of a Square Complex
  27. 20.6
  28. Rook Placement
  29. Centralizing the Rook
  30. 22.2
  31. Outpost I
  32. Outpost II
  33. Switching Off the Bishop
  34. Restricting the Bishop's Mobility
  35. A Cage for the Bishop
  36. The Bad Bishop
  37. 28.9
  38. 28.10
  39. 28.11
  40. 28.12
  41. Transferring the Bishop
  42. Capablanca's Rules
  43. Switching Off the Knight
  44. 31.5
  45. Restricting the Knight's Mobility
  46. Switching Off the Rook
  47. Boleslavsky's Maneuver
  48. 35.1
  49. Attack on the h-file
  50. Centralizing the Knight
  51. The Réti Battery
  52. The Smyslov Battery
  53. The Lasker Battery
  54. Two Weaknesses
  55. A Cozy Spot for the Queen
  56. Giving Way to the Pawn
  57. Borisenko's Prophylaxis
  58. Botvinnik's Discovery
  59. Opposite-Colored Bishops
  60. 46.4
  61. 46.5
  62. Artificial Castling
  63. Blackburne's Ram
  64. Rubinstein's Maneuver
  65. Preemptive Strike

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