365 Chess Master Lessons
Take One a Day to Be a Better Chess Player
Published on 13. July 2017
384 pages
978-1-84994-471-7 (ISBN)
Description
Increase your chess knowledge within the year! In this book, Andrew Soltis analyzes 365 key chess games in an easy way for busy people.
In this book, 365 of the most instructive short games of chess are analyzed, step by step, by well-respected author Andrew Soltis. Arranged as daily lessons, this book is perfect for chess players who would like to reach the next level of skill but can't devote hours and hours each day to study.
Learn to feel confident with each tactic - each game features test-yourself quizzes (with answers at the back of the book) to help cement understanding, as well as chess diagrams for those who learn visually. Challenging tactics are revisited in later games to help you recognize when they occur and how chess masters use them to their full advantage.
With this book, Andrew encourages you to learn to think like a chess master within the year. From Castling to Zugzwang, learn something new everyday!
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International Grandmaster Andrew Soltis is chess correspondent for the New York Post and a very popular chess writer. He is the author of many books including What it Takes to Become a Chess Master, Studying Chess Made Easy and David Vs Goliath Chess.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Introduction
- Day 1 Take What He Gives
- Day 2 Oldest, Essential
- Day 3 Opportunity Knocks
- Day 4 Line Seal
- Day 5 Too Quiet
- Day 6 Developed, Unprotected
- Day 7 Catching Up
- Day 8 Developed, Unprotected II
- Day 9 Beware the Automatic
- Day 10 Trapper Trapped
- Day 11 Rival Raids
- Day 12 Tactical Chain
- Day 13 Fork Trick
- Day 14 Draw-Minded
- Day 15 Pregnant Pawns
- Day 16 Phantom Pin
- Day 17 Frozen Pawn
- Day 18 Shot for Shot
- Day 19 xh7+!
- Day 20 Long (Explosive) Diagonals
- Day 21 Elegant Block
- Day 22 Secure Center
- Day 23 Book Brilliance
- Day 24 Wing Grab
- Day 25 Right Squares
- Day 26 Knee-Jerk
- Day 27 Unforced
- Day 28 Bolt From Blue
- Day 29 Problem Piece
- Day 30 Drawback
- Day 31 Bludgeon or Rapier
- Day 32 Initiative
- Day 33 Timing
- Day 34 Short Term
- Day 35 Giving Up (the Center)
- Day 36 All That Glitters ...
- Day 37 Free Hands
- Day 38 First Class
- Day 39 Strike While ...
- Day 40 Soft Spot
- Day 41 Your Wing
- Day 42 Hypnosis
- Day 43 Piece, Not Pawn
- Day 44 Pawn Fear
- Day 45 Tempo Gainer - or Loser
- Day 46 Unjustified Force
- Day 47 Zwischenzug
- Day 48 Black Trap
- Day 49 Obvious Flaw
- Day 50 Logical Blunder
- Day 51 Not Enough
- Day 52 Iron Law of Pawns
- Day 53 Surprise
- Day 54 Risk Avoidance
- Day 55 Obscure Squares
- Day 56 Check Power
- Day 57 Unopposed Bishop
- Day 58 Provocation
- Day 59 Good Move, Better Time
- Day 60 Good D, Good P
- Day 61 Wakeup Call
- Day 62 Open Center
- Day 63 Extra Minutes
- Day 64 Faster Wing
- Day 65 Golden Tempi
- Day 66 Back Seat
- Day 67 Bone in Throat
- Day 68 Thematic Suicide
- Day 69 More Forcing
- Day 70 Vagabond Queen
- Day 71 Mis-Punishment
- Day 72 Underguarded
- Day 73 Threat After Threat
- Day 74 Endgame-minded
- Day 75 Equality Temptation
- Day 76 Illogical Defense
- Day 77 Castling Into It
- Day 78 Lulled
- Day 79 Queenless Initiative
- Day 80 Castling Dilemma
- Day 81 Too Few Squares
- Day 82 Structure Tactics
- Day 83 Defend + Attack
- Day 84 Towards the Center
- Day 85 Good , Bad
- Day 86 Deceptive King
- Day 87 Center Change
- Day 88 Picturesque Mate
- Day 89 Color Complexes
- Day 90 Mated in 20 moves
- Day 91 Multi-multi-tasking
- Day 92 Diagonal Pins
- Day 93 Queen On Queen
- Day 94 Not-So-Mysterious Rook
- Day 95 Passed Pawns Must ...
- Day 96 Entrenched
- Day 97 Over-Care
- Day 98 Assumption
- Day 99 Traffic Jam
- Day 100 Declaring War
- Day 101 Tactical Sabotage
- Day 102 Blind Spot
- Day 103 Too Many Plans
- Day 104 Reteats
- Day 105 Vanishing Time
- Day 106 Time vs. Center
- Day 107 Restraint That Doesn't
- Day 108 Regret
- Day 109 Tactical Gods
- Day 110 Coffee House
- Day 111 Model Center
- Day 112 Neglected Wing
- Day 113 Easier To Play
- Day 114 Pin = Time
- Day 115 Twice Wrong
- Day 116 Single Slip
- Day 117 Convincing Dazzle
- Day 118 The Whole Board
- Day 119 Center Tradeoff
- Day 120 Inertia
- Day 121 Enough
- Day 122 Hypermodernism
- Day 123 Entitlement
- Day 124 Forgotten Square
- Day 125 Clumsy Queen
- Day 126 One-Piece Attack
- Day 127 Porous Center
- Day 128 Another Mate
- Day 129 Tactical Antennae
- Day 130 Perfect Storm
- Day 131 The Two s
- Day 132 Real Threat
- Day 133 Single-Minded
- Day 134 Time to castle
- Day 135 Caffeine Break
- Day 136 s Before s
- Day 137 False Faith
- Day 138 Gambits Accepted
- Day 139 Desperado Queen
- Day 140 Unlikely Defense
- Day 141 Far Fork
- Day 142 Counter-threat
- Day 143 Pawn Currency
- Day 144 Latecomer
- Day 145 Recovery
- Day 146 Square License
- Day 147 Wing Liberties
- Day 148 Oh-Oh-Oh
- Day 149 Fear of Equality
- Day 150 Check Follow
- Day 151 Misreading
- Day 152 Balance Sheet
- Day 153 Future Lines
- Day 154 Risk
- Day 155 Phalanx
- Day 156 Opening & Closing
- Day 157 Waiting to Exhale
- Day 158 Your Gambit or Mine
- Day 159 Far Away Force
- Day 160 Mating Radar
- Day 161 Pride
- Day 162 Off Balance
- Day 163 Quick Fingers
- Day 164 What's He Thinking?
- Day 165 Short-Circuited
- Day 166 Magical Bailout
- Day 167 Trust Yourself
- Day 168 Bluff
- Day 169 Chaos
- Day 170 Escape Route
- Day 171 Shielded King
- Day 172 Tarrasch Trap
- Day 173 Disrupt
- Day 174 Tempo-Saving Bluff
- Day 175 Pin Breaking
- Day 176 Solid or Timid
- Day 177 Better Pin Breaking
- Day 178 Sense of Danger
- Day 179 Chance Grab
- Day 180 Bigger Fish
- Day 181 Backtracking
- Day 182 Out Of Book
- Day 183 Go To Work
- Day 184 Escalation
- Day 185 Forgotten Piece
- Day 186 Expect Less
- Day 187 Transformation
- Day 188 Danger Diagonal
- Day 189 Automatic Error
- Day 190 Look-Alike Positions
- Day 191 Memory Counts
- Day 192 Too Quick
- Day 193 Move Order
- Day 194 Real Sacrifices
- Day 195 Seriously
- Day 196 Double-edged
- Day 197 Ancient Wisdom
- Day 198 Repair Work
- Day 199 Good, Bad, Mysterious
- Day 200 Reversal
- Day 201 Jaws of Victory
- Day 202 Positional Blunder
- Day 203 Study the Classics
- Day 204 Gut Feeling
- Day 205 Planless
- Day 206 Unpolished Sparkle
- Day 207 Isolani
- Day 208 Pawn Reputation
- Day 209 Liquidation
- Day 210 Diagonal Pin
- Day 211 Faster
- Day 212 Castling Mashup
- Day 213 Puzzling Pawn
- Day 214 No Immunity
- Day 215 Push Damage
- Day 216 Trap Dodger
- Day 217 Wait
- Day 218 Tactical Energy
- Day 219 Trading Up
- Day 220 Center-Concessions
- Day 221 Tactical Warning
- Day 222 Reinforcements
- Day 223 Concealed Lag
- Day 224 Adding Up
- Day 225 King Imbalance
- Day 226 Rook vs. Queen
- Day 227 Mutual Domination
- Day 228 U-Turn
- Day 229 Wing Shift
- Day 230 Pin Pain
- Day 231 Birth of a Blunder
- Day 232 Cost of Sloppiness
- Day 233 Plan Detection
- Day 234 Hidden Virtues
- Day 235 Hurry Up
- Day 236 Simple Chess
- Day 237 Execution Plan
- Day 238 Bishop Appreciation
- Day 239 Super Center
- Day 240 Price of Initiative
- Day 241 Inspired Desperation
- Day 242 Young Gambits
- Day 243 Two Miscues = One Blunder
- Day 244 One-Move Window
- Day 245 Other Foot
- Day 246 Two-Wing War
- Day 247 Paratrooper Knight
- Day 248 Pawn Timing
- Day 249 Sicilian Sharpness
- Day 250 Good Habits
- Day 251 Hyperopia
- Day 252 If It Walks Like a Duck ...
- Day 253 Moving Parts
- Day 254 Buried Bishop
- Day 255 Doubling Down
- Day 256 Bizarre Beats Bizarre
- Day 257 Boomerang Trap
- Day 258 Irony of Attack
- Day 259 Energizing center
- Day 260 Power Failure
- Day 261 False Knockout
- Day 262 Beginner's Move
- Day 263 Rush to Push
- Day 264 Traffic Jam II
- Day 265 Two Goals
- Day 266 Center Rout
- Day 267 Opening Blitz
- Day 268 Solid Stonewalls
- Day 269 Paralyzing Bishop
- Day 270 More
- Day 271 Sword of Damocles
- Day 272 Strategic Goals
- Day 273 Symmetry
- Day 274 False Impression
- Day 275 Confidence
- Day 276 In For A Penny ...
- Day 277 Tale of Two Pawns
- Day 278 Enough Time
- Day 279 Pragmatism Limits
- Day 280 Transparency
- Day 281 Imitation
- Day 282 Computer Defying
- Day 283 Collapsing Center
- Day 284 Chain Head
- Day 285 Faster
- Day 286 Gambit Think
- Day 287 Life Is Unfair
- Day 288 Double Rook Offer
- Day 289 Artificially Isolated
- Day 290 Square-Clearing
- Day 291 Dead End
- Day 292 Two Targets
- Day 293 Cat And Mouse
- Day 294 Repetition
- Day 295 Trappy Openings
- Day 296 Sacrificial Blindness
- Day 297 Static
- Day 298 Inspiration
- Day 299 True Fiction
- Day 300 Call-Up
- Day 301 Bluff Traps
- Day 302 Bailout
- Day 303 Never Too Late
- Day 304 Three Pieces = Mate
- Day 305 Gambit-Think II
- Day 306 What Remains
- Day 307 Impossible Moves
- Day 308 Imposible Moves II
- Day 309 Queen Difference
- Day 310 Time + Space
- Day 311 Tarrasch's Rule
- Day 312 White's Privilege
- Day 313 Hope Springs
- Day 314 Dramatic Defense
- Day 315 Creepers
- Day 316 Creative Rook
- Day 317 House of Cards
- Day 318 Black Ambition
- Day 319 Unforgiving
- Day 320 New Territory
- Day 321 Equalizing Injustice
- Day 322 takes
- Day 323 Last Mistake
- Day 324 Weakness That Isn't
- Day 325 Stragglers
- Day 326 Fatal Cramp
- Day 327 Trade Denied
- Day 328 Last Mistake II
- Day 329 Broken Door
- Day 330 Popular Errors
- Day 331 Misdirection
- Day 332 Check Plus
- Day 333 Pipe Dream
- Day 334 Extra Pawns
- Day 335 Time Saver
- Day 336 Too Good
- Day 337 Good Begets Great
- Day 338 Over-finesse
- Day 339 Structural Trend
- Day 340 Another Look
- Day 341 Respect
- Day 342 Saved Tempo
- Day 343 Common Sense
- Day 344 Feed the Beast
- Day 345 Stretched Defenders
- Day 346 Bees of Opps
- Day 347 Rule Reversal
- Day 348 Desperate Defense
- Day 349 Fortress
- Day 350 Two Stages
- Day 351 Doubleton Risk
- Day 352 Symmetry II
- Day 353 Bind
- Day 354 King Surprise
- Day 355 Bind Buildup
- Day 356 Tacking
- Day 357 Overcommitted
- Day 358 Pawn Shields
- Day 359 Battleground Square
- Day 360 Mildly Dubious
- Day 361 Zwischenzug
- Day 362 Overextended
- Day 363 Unchallenged
- Day 364 Retreat
- Day 365 Take What He Gives You II
- Quiz Answers
- Copyright
