Chess Evolution 3 completes Artur Yusupov's course of chess improvement. The Fundamentals series showed players the basic ideas they should know. The Beyond the Basics series set off on the road to mastery, and now in the Mastery series we have arrived at our final destination. Yusupov guides the reader using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.

Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world 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. In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from current World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides

Content:
004 Key to symbols used

005 Preface

006 Introduction

008 1. Desperadoes

020 2. Static advantages

034 3. The comparison method

042 4. Rook against two minor pieces

054 5. Open games

066 6. The minority attack

080 7. Complicated Combinations

090 8. Fortresses

100 9. Complex positions

110 10. The transition to the middlegame

122 11. The bishop pair

136 12. Shutting out a piece

150 13. Playing against pieces

162 14. Principles of rook endings

176 15. Playing for traps

188 16. Castling on opposite sides

200 17. Pawn chains

214 18. Transition from the opening to the ending

228 19. Exchanging queens - the transition to the ending

240 20. Outposts for knights

250 21. Having a plan

264 22. Pirc and Modern Defences

278 23. Complex positions 2

288 24. Queen endings

300 Final test

311 Index of composers

312 Index of games