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EVERYMAN CHESS
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First published 2001 by Everyman Publishers plc, formerly Cadogan Books
plc, Gloucester Mansions, 140A Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8HD
Copyright© 2001 Angus Dunnington
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has been asserted in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents
Act 1988.
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ISBN 1 857 44 228 8
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Contents
- Introduction
5
- 1. Attacking the King
7
- 2. Defending - Keep Calm!
40
- 3. Opening Lines
56
- 4. Using the Pieces
74
- 5. Using the Pawns
104
- 6. Further Ideas
122
- 7. Solutions to Exercises
139
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Introduction
This book is designed to help the student of the game sit at the board
with more conidence, armed with an appreciation of a number of im­
portant practical aspects of the middlegame. Obviously the very con­
straints of a book make it impossible to provide any kind of 'complete'
guide, not least because the middlegame is a mass of uncharted terri­
tory. However, the same cannot be said of opening theory, for exam­
ple, where we have the luxury of exact sequences of moves, while even
endings can be studied precisely, with many situations analysed ex­
haustively.
The middlegame, in fact, is a cruel sea that separates the relatively
safe, dry land of opening and ending. As soon as the pieces drift from
the posts allotted to them by theory they become our responsibility,
and we are more or less left to our own devices as to how to best treat
them.
With this in mind I have accumulated a selection of practical exam­
ples that can be seen in tournament halls everywhere, with an em­
phasis on how this or that factor might be applied in our own experi­
ence. Rather than make an overview of general rules and advice I
have concentrated on mainly positive themes, ranging from outright
attack to strong defence. In other words, the areas of the middle game
we investigate might have positional, psychological and attacking sig­
niicance or they could feature a speciic piece, but they are all linked
by the common denominator that is a better understanding of the
game.
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