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CHESS
MIDDLEGAME
COMBINATIONS
by
Peter
Romanovsky
Translated from the Russian by
Jimmy Adams
AMERICAN CHESS PROMOTIONS
Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.
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First English language edition 191
© Copyright 191. American Chess Promotions. All Rights Reseved.
ISBN 0-939298-95-3
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Cover design by Ron Watson
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Contents
Translator's Preface
4
Chapter One: What is a Combination?
5
Chapter Two: Combinational Elements - Motives and Themes.
8
Chapter Three: Aesthetics of Combinations. General Ideas.
13
Chapter Four: Ideas and Technique in Combinations
with the "Smothered king".
17
Chapter Five: More about aesthetics.
About the Pseudo-Sacrifice.
The Sacrifice of a Queen.
23
Chapter Six: About the Theory of Combinations.
Typical Ideas
35
Chapter Seven: History of Combinations.
The Immortal Game.
Masterpieces of the end of the 19th century.
52
Chapter Eight: Double Attack. Pawn Attacks.
75
Chapter ' Nine: Positional Weaknesses - Motive of a
Combination. Combinations provoked by
weaknesses in the castled position.
Sacrifice of a bishop for the g3, h3, g6, h6 pawns.
97
Chapter Ten: The combinational attack of the two bishops.
Harmony of the rooks on the second and seventh
ranks. The sacrifice of the rook on g 7.
116
Chapter Eleven: Harmony of rooks and bishops.
The theme of locked-in pieces.
143
Chapter Twelve: Methods of Interception and various
combinational ideas.
160
Chapter Thirteen: About the thinking of a chessplayer
during the game.
169
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Translator's Preface
The present book, a translation of the Russian original of 1963, forms the
second part of Peter Romanovsky's classic work on the middlegame.
Middlegame Combinations, like its companion volume, Middlegame
Panning, is written with a view to helping the reader acquire a practical
understanding of middlegame techniques and an appreciation of the beauty
and aesthetics of chess.
Though little-known in the West, Romanovsky was one of the game's
independent and original thinkers, who gained great respect in the Soviet
Union as a player, writer and enthusiastic teacher of the art and science of
chess.
Throughout the book one is struck by the harmony of the author's
thoughts: the natural link of chess history with the present day, the
inter-relation of positional weaknesses and combinational motives, the
co-operation of the pieces in the carrying out of tactical operations,
balanced and organised thinking processes.
The history of this very important work is interesting. The first edition, a
single volume, The Middlegame. Combinations and Panning in Chess, was
published in 1929. Ten years later, Romanovsky was already preparing a
second edition, but War broke out and the revised manuscript perished in
the siege of Leningrad.
Much time and energy was required for Romanovsky to restore his
creation. But this was not an easy task and even a casual comparison of the
first edition with the present work is enough to convince the reader that we
have here, in its composition, elucidation of themes and illustrative
material, an entirely new and original piece of research.
After studying Romanovsky, the reader should never make a move
without good reason - a positional plan or a combinational idea - ever
again!
Jimmy Adams
London 1990
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