I hope the reader will find these useful. I shall be hanunering away at certain themes time and again: the need for knights to occupy out posts the importance of attacking to exploit the potential of the queen the use of exchanging to take the sting out of the bishop pair the frequent need to trans form the nature of an advantage in order to realize it, and many more. The main aim of this lay out is to help focus on particularly important aspects of each exam ple. The most perfectly placed piece imag inable may be of limited worth if the player is oblivious to the possi ble techniques for exploiting its potential. Moreover, one of my aims throughout is to emphasize the practical use of the pieces, in mak ing plans, in attacking, etc. As well as pawn structure, the presence or ab sence, and the strength or weak ness, of other pieces bears greatly The pieces cannot be looked at in isolation. Of course, this description is a bit simplified. Hopefully, here, the material of the earlier chapters will be of benefit. Then we go on to look at how certain pieces work together. One chapter is devoted to each of the individual pieces. T h e l ayo u t o f the b o o k i s roughly as follows.
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the strengths and weaknesses of the pawns, in themselves are not discussed, but there will be scarcely a page where attention is not drawn to the very pro found impact which pawn structure has on piece activity. Do Not Be Misled!! His aim was basi cally to show his contemporaries, ignorant of the later advances of chess theory which are today widely taken for granted, that the pawns play a key role in determin ing the strength of the respective pieces. The impor tance of this for practical success hardly needs to be stated If Andre Philidor, the first truly profound theoretician is to be believed, the 'pawns are the soul of chess'.
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Introduction This is a book about the chess pieces - their strengths and weak nesses, and how to deploy them to the very best effect. 1 Clues to chess problems are indicated by a box containing 'P'.Answers to chess problems are indicated by a box contain1 A. The place and in some cases the type of event is given in italic.Ĭhess problems are indicated by a box containing and 1 Q. When a game is mentioned, the players' names are given in bold, with the player with the white pieces given fIrst, before the hyphen.
The following are the essential ones: Good move Bad move Brilliant move Blunder Interesting move Dubious move Castles kingside Castles queenside Championship World Championship Postal game Symbols Apart from standard algebraic notation, very few symbols are used in this book. Some ideas for Combatting the Two Bishops Bishops of Opposite Colour The Battle of Rook against Two Minor Pieces A Couple of Further Questions More ways to Combat the Bishop Pair ReducedMaterial and King Safety The Back Rank Queen v Other Pieces (2) - Weakness of the Queen Queen v Other Pieces (1) -Strength of the Queen Some thoughts on 'good' and 'bad' bishopsĪn interesting use of the half-open file 'Swinging Rooks' - mobilizing rooks along the rank 'Good' and 'Bad' Bishops - the textbook view Batsford Ltd, 4 Fitzhardinge Street, London W1H OAHĮditorial panel: Mark Dvoretsk y, John Nunn, Jon Speelman General adviser: Raymond Keene OBE Editor: Graham BurgessĬontents Symbols Introduction 1 Bishop Power 1.1 No part of this book may be reproduced, by any means, without prior permission of the publisher Typeset by Ocean View Graphics and printed in Great Britain by Redwood Books, Trowbridge, Wilts for the publishers, B. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. © Peter Wells 1994 ISBN 071347513 7 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data.