This award-winning instructional series is at the Fundamentals level, which shows players the basic ideas on the road to mastery, using carefully selected positions and advice, plus test puzzles.

Winner of the prestigious Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Mark Dvoretsky in 2nd and 3rd place)

Quality Chess is proud to be the publisher of Artur Yusupov's complete course of chess training. Stretching to nine volumes, Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles. The course is structured on three series with three levels. The Fundamentals Series is the easier one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players. The various topics - Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, the Endgame, Calculating Variations, Openings and so on - are spread evenly over the nine volumes, giving the readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books

Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world of chess from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary Karpov and Kasparov. He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship and is now a chess trainer. He has worked with players ranging from current World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides. He has worked with players ranging from current World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.

Translated from the German edition Tigersprung auf DWZ 1500 III

Content:
004 Key to symbols used

005 Preface

006 Introduction

008 1) Combinations involving bishops

018 2) Diagonals

028 3) Queen sacrifices

036 4) Realizing a material advantage in a pawn ending

046 5) Realizing a material advantage

056 6) Attacking with queen and knight

066 7) The open games

076 8) Attacking with queen and rook

086 9) Forced Variations

096 10) Attacking with queen and bishop

106 11) Positional advantages

118 12) Bishop against pawns

126 13) Attacking with queen and pawn

134 14) Attacking

146 15) Attacking with rook and bishop

158 16) Knight against pawn

168 17) Attacking with rook and knight

176 18) Semi-open games

188 19) Combinations involving promotion

198 20) Mate in three moves

206 21) Mating nets in the endgame

216 22) The passed pawn

226 23) Combinations involving files

236 24) Queen against rook

245 Final test

255 Index of composers

256 Index of games