Introduction

This book is a practical guide to fifty classic strategic techniques of positional play. Each chapter explains one device — when it applies, how it is carried out and what it achieves — and illustrates it with complete games from classical and modern practice. The techniques are largely independent, so the reader may study them in any order, though later chapters occasionally build on earlier ones.

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Botvinnik, Mikhail — Panov, Vasily N URS-ch11 · 1939.??.?? · 1-0
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Portisch, Lajos — Fischer, Robert James Sousse Interzonal+ · 1967.??.?? · 1/2-1/2
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Capablanca, Jose Raul — Alekhine, Alexander World Championship 13th · 1927.11.05 · 1/2-1/2
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Karpov, Anatoly — Kasparov, Garry World Championship 31th-KK1 · 1985.01.30 · 0-1