Boost your Chess 3 Mastery

Descripción

Boost your Chess 3 Mastery continues Artur Yusupov’s complete course of chess improvement. The Fundamentals series showed players the basic ideas they should know.

The Beyond the Basics series set off on the road to mastery, and now in the Mastery series we arrive at our final destination.

Yusupov guides the reader using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.

Boost your Chess 3 Mastery

Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary Karpov and Kasparov.

He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship.

In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from current World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.

Artur Yusupov

It was a pleasure to have Artur Yusupov working as my second, both personally and professionally. It is therefore an honour for me to write the preface to this series of books.

T his book was created by expanding and improving the original online lessons from the Chess Tigers University. As an honorary member of the Chess Tigers,

it has given me great pleasure to see this logical follow-up take concrete form and meet the twin challenges of being both a valuable textbook and a bedside book.

It was in 1994 that I met Artur Yusupov in the semi-finals of the Candidates’ cycle in Wijk aan Zee. I managed to come out ahead by 4.5–2.5,

but I recognized that Artur harboured great potential, both in his chess knowledge and extensive match experience.

Boost your Chess 3 Mastery

Artur’s systematic and professional approach to analysing games was the decisive factor in having him as my second in the World Championship Finals in New York 1995 and Lausanne 1998.

His mastery of the methods of the Russian chess school was very helpful in the preparation for the matches, as well as during the matches themselves.

It was his idea that I should play the Trompovsky in the last game in Lausanne. I was 3-2 down, but was able to level the match at 3–3 and thus force a play-off.

I am still very grateful for everything that Artur did for me.

Winner of the 2009 Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world

(ahead of Garry Kasparov and Mark Dvoretsky in 2nd and 3rd place).

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