Descripción

The Creative Power of Bogoljubov Volume II  in the second part of his two-volume treatise on Bogoljubov’s games, International Master Grigory Bogdanovich provides 191 fully annotated games and fragments as well as 6 endgame compositions and 23 tactical positions for the reader to analyze.

Attack, Defense, Planning and More

As in the first volume, his analysis of Bogoljubov’s games is split into instructive themes, making his treatise a fantastic textbook for learning a huge range of winning techniques.

The present volume covers the topics of attack, defense, planning, Bogoljubov’s contribution to opening theory, and endgame technique.

In the openings chapter, there is a special section on how Bogoljubov handled Spanish Exchange, Carlsbad, Stonewall and Pillsbury knight structures. It also includes his contributions to theory in the King’s Gambit, Two Knights, Four Knights, Spanish, French, Queen’s Gambit Cambridge Springs, Slav and Semi-Slav, Zukertort System and Bogo-Indian.

The chapter on Bogoljubov’s endgame technique covers pawn structures, king activity, pawn endings, same-colored and opposite-colored bishop endings, knight endings, rook endings, queen endings, material imbalances and multi-piece endings among others.

Attack, Defense, Planning and More

This book also contains further photos from Bogoljubov’s career.

Chess theory states that the side that possesses an advantage must attack, otherwise they risk losing this advantage. This instruction is taken from Steinitz’s doctrine.

The great German chess player Siegbert Tarrasch, who was the follower and chief advocate of this doctrine, indicated the target of an attack:

“You should attack where the enemy is weak and you are strong.” The development of this postulate has been formalized in Mikhail Tal’s “assault ratio”. Attacking theory has become overlain with various tips such as Tartakower’s:

Grigory Bogdanovich

 The Creative Power of Bogoljubov II