For Lluis Comas Fabrego chess is about more than just winning as many games as possible, it is a creative search for the truth, in True Lies in Chess Comas Fabrego takes on the challenging task of separating the truth from lies in chess literature. Guided by many practical examples and clear advice, the readers will learn how to reduce the complexity of chess towards the essential features of each position, and so improve their play.
The author argues that in modern chess the tendency to prefer concrete analysis to the written word is dangerous. Humans are incapable of finding the correct move by brute-force calculation like a computer. We must simplify the problem by focusing on the elements that our judgement tells us are most significant. Comas Fabrego shows how his creative approach has helped him find many novelties in the opening, particularly concentrating on the Na6-lines of the King's Indian in which he is a renowned expert.
Lluis Comas Fabrego is a grandmaster and has twice been Spanish Champion. This is his first book for Quality Chess.
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Very few chess books are able to make an original contribution about the strategic side of chess, but that is the aim of this remarkable book. The dogmas of chess, which have been established for more than a century, are rarely questioned despite the clear evolution in the style of top class chess. By taking an irreverent look at the supposed absolute truths of chess, Comas Fabrego judges the validity of established rules and strategic concepts.
Content:
005 Bibliography
006 List of symbols
007 Foreword
009 CHAPTER I - Do not Trust the Classics
009 The tip of the iceberg
015 Dogmatic = Limited
017 Some more rigour would not be amiss...
019 Applying what has been learnt
020 Challenging the heavyweights
024 Nobody is without sin
029 CHAPTER II - Middlegame Motifs
029 I. The blockaded passed pawn
030 Minority attack
032 An excellent example
034 Reality is always more complex than theory
039 II. Jupiter and its satellites: the f-file versus the strong point on e4
044 Can you dance?
045 What are you telling me?
046 The thin (and subtle) line between prophylaxis and passivity
051 CHAPTER III - Final Conclusions?
052 Neither so simple nor so clear
057 The empire strikes back
060 Exchanging queens (the relation between the opening and the endgame)
066 New ideas in the pipeline
069 CHAPTER IV - How are Opening Novelties Born?
069 Episode I: The analysis of a model game as a source of inspiration
073 Episode II: First-hand impressions
074 Episode III: Preconceptions
076 Episode IV: The devastating influence of preconceptions
077 Episode V: Building new paths
079 Episode VI and last: Applying the ideas so far discussed to modern positions
081 The practical test
082 Long-term structural and positional advantages versus time
085 Applying the new concepts to opening theory
091 Time versus Material: positional pawn sacrifices in the opening
095 Thanks Mr Dvoretsky: Prophylaxis and logic in the opening
096 I leave before I get kicked out
098 Is it possible to completely neutralize the opponent's initiative?
103 CHAPTER V - The Opening According to Me - or Why I like ...Na6 in the King´s Indian
104 Creating something new
105 Line 1: Playing à la Petrosian
107 Line 2: Other nuances of the move Bg5
110 Line 3: Near the storm
114 Line 4: In the eye of the hurricane
115 White gets rid of the black knights
118 White only exchanges one enemy knight
119 Miscellany: Three stories
119 1. Evaluations change
119 2. Whatever happened to... ?
121 3. A Chess Symphony
125 CHAPTER VI - The Others
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