Descripción

Mastering Chess Defence Study brings wisdom. Practice brings perfection. All chess players know that they need to study tactics, calculation, endgames, and openings, but when it comes to

defense, far too many wait until they’re under pressure. The truth is that more games are lost because of defensive mistakes than strategic ones.

Mastering Chess Defence

By improving your defense, you could do more for your win rate than perhaps any other area of chess study. Mastering Chess Defence by GM Johan Hellsten is the training program you need to

be prepared and defend against attacks, both in the short and long term.

Inside are 31 chapters that form a compendium of all the defensive skills you need to learn.

Study brings wisdom. Practice brings perfection

Specifically, you’ll learn to

• Deflect successfully with material
• Create counterthreats – the best defense is a good offense
• Exploit the back rank as a defensive measure
• Learn the risks of materialism – to grab material or not to grab?
• Find safety on flight squares
• Find «lifelines» that allow you to escape from the seemingly inescapable

This is the most comprehensive modern book on defensive techniques, with hundreds of instructive examples and dozens of exercises. Strategic mastermind Johan Hellsten teaches you to

defend at a master level.

Mastering Chess Defence

Johan Hellsten is a Grandmaster, a former Swedish Champion and a European Team Championship individual gold medalist. He’s a renowned chess teacher and award-winning author with

his trilogy: Mastering Chess Strategy, Mastering Opening Strategy and Mastering Endgame Strategy.

This book has its origin in my work as a trainer during the last two decades. Over the years, I have collected many examples from contemporary practice about defensive play, and I have also

developed my own theoretical structure about defensive ideas in general, all of which I am happy to share with you here.

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