005 Preface

006 Introduction

008 1. Combined attack on the seventh and eighth ranks

020 2. Exchanging

030 3. Attacking the king

040 4. Opening repertoire against 1.c4

052 5. Don’t allow counterplay!

062 6. A lead in development

074 7. Exploiting weaknesses

084 8. Calculating short variations

092 9. Better pawn structures

106 10. The pawn phalanx

116 11. Opening repertoire (Black vs. the Reti/White vs. the King’s Indian)

130 12. Don’t be too hasty!

142 13. The double bishop sacrifice

152 14. Pawn play

164 15. Active moves

174 16. Intermediate checks

184 17. Improving the position of your pieces

196 18. Pawn sacrifices in the opening

212 19. Intermediate moves

222 20. The principle of two weaknesses

234 21. An advantage in space

248 22. Counter-blows

258 23. The centre in the opening

270 24. The correct exchanges

285 Final test

296 Index of games & studies