Think like Ivanchuk Practical Chess Exercises: Tactics, Strategy

Descripción

Think Like Ivanchuk Practical Chess Exercises: Tactics, Strategy, Endgames is a celebration of a true chess genius. This book is a collection of Vasyl Ivanchuk’s best games, a chess biography and a highly entertaining training manual all in one.

Viktor Moskalenko

Vasyl Ivanchuk, a super-grandmaster from Ukraine, was born in 1969 and was the best player in the world in the 1990s behind World Champion Garry Kasparov. He has won the Olympiad, the super-tournaments in Linares and Wijk aan Zee, and many, many other events. He is an incredibly versatile player and has employed almost every possible opening variation known to chess.

Think Like Ivanchuk

Grandmaster Viktor Moskalenko has known his compatriot since childhood, has been his second and sparring partner, and understands his style like no other. Moskalenko has selected Ivanchuk’s most fascinating games against world champions and top grandmasters and has derived more than 500 training positions from them. The exercises are fun, engaging, and presented in a way that any chess player can understand.

Practical Chess Exercises: Tactics, Strategy, Endgames

Think Like Ivanchuk

Viktor Moskalenko (1960) is one of the leading chess instructors of our time. The Ukrainian Grandmaster has authored numerous inspiring opening manuals such as.Trompowsky Attack & London System, An Attacking Repertoire for White with 1.d4, The Fully-Fledged French, The Wonderful Winawer, and The Fabulous Budapest Gambit.

Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Seven symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
About the exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Part I                Seven classical World Champions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Session 1 Ivanchuk versus Smyslov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Session 2 Ivanchuk versus Karpov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Session 3 Ivanchuk versus Kasparov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Session 4 Ivanchuk versus Kramnik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Session 5 Ivanchuk versus Anand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Session 6 Ivanchuk versus Carlsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Session 7 Ivanchuk versus Ding Liren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Part II           Four FIDE World Champions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Session 8 Ivanchuk versus Khalifman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Session 9 Ivanchuk versus Ponomariov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Session 10 Ivanchuk versus Kasimdzhanov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Session 11 Ivanchuk versus Topalov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Part III       Seven world top players from the Golden Age . . . . . . . 95
Session 12 Ivanchuk versus Korchnoi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Session 13 Ivanchuk versus Shirov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Session 14 Ivanchuk versus Gelfand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Session 15 Ivanchuk versus Short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Session 16 Ivanchuk versus Kamsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Session 17 Ivanchuk versus Leko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Session 18 Ivanchuk versus Morozevich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

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