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Key Concepts of Chess  I decided to make a list of middlegame topics that I came across in the

books on openings that  perhaps could be better, or at least elaborated further on. As a chess trainer,

I was always  constructing teaching material on the middle game. This was initially intended for the

top youth in  the Netherlands, whom I often took under my wing. Given the high level of many of

these youth  players, I had to look for striking, well crystallized examples and corresponding

processing. On the  one hand these were tactical assignments, strategic tasks, blind exercises; on the

other, positions that  they could play out among themselves or in a simultaneous game against the

trainer, after which the game fragments were analyzed together. Later my activities shifted more and

more to the growing  group of club chess players who also needed chess training. In the past forty

odd years I have  developed training materials on several levels that may be of interest to club level

players worldwide.  That is why I decided to put these kinds of topics into book form as well.

Although some of these topics have also been the subject of books, I hope to add value with a clear

structure and a sophisticated selection of instructive examples.

Key Concepts of Chess – 1 – The Hedgehog

The subject of this first book is the hedgehog system. This is for two reasons. When I was working on

my book ‘Understanding before Moving’ Volume 3- Part 2, the Taimanov, Kan & Richter Rauzer, I

could not avoid also cobbling together a separate chapter on the hedgehog System. Because of the

length of the chapter and in order not to lapse into lengthy explanations I limited myself to what was

purely necessary.

The second reason for putting this book together is that the hedgehog system is special to me. After

my first introduction, I immediately became “hooked” on this trench work. Attempting a breakout at

an unexpected moment after hiding patiently on your first three ranks appealed to me. What I did

not get around to with the ‘Sicilian Hedgehog’.

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