Fundamental Checkmates

Fundamental Checkmates.
Type: BOOKS. Detail: Gude,A. Product Code: 9781910093801.
Category: PUZZLES. Publisher: .
Retail Price: AUD $49.95 (includes GST)
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Chess might seem a complex and mysterious game, but the ultimate goal is simple, checkmate.

Checkmate can occur in all stages of the game, from snap mates in the opening, through middlegame attacks to simplified endgames. Learning how to use our pieces together to corner the enemy king is a fundamental skill that all chessplayers must constantly practise, sharpen and develop.

This book lays out, in systematic and thorough fashion, a wide range of mating patterns and techniques, in particular showing how each piece pair can combine to deliver mate.

A working knowledge of these ideas enables players to move on to mating combinations, where pieces lay down their lives so that the remaining forces can deliver mate. Gude explains an amazing variety of tactical devices, and illustrates them in unforgettable style with some of the most brilliant mating attacks from practice, new and old. There are chapters on how to attack kings in the centre, as well as standard (and other!) attacks against the castled position.

This is a true textbook of checkmate, readers will never be short of mating ideas, and will instinctively know when there is a possibility to launch an attack, or when they must parry the opponents threats. Fundamental Checkmates also features more than 300 exercises with full solutions.

Softback, 382 pages. Dimensions (cm) 17.5 x 24.7 x 3.2

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