Acknowledgments

Books from "Chess school" series were compiled gradually during the period of twenty years. They resulted from many years of working with students, among them are GM Nikola Sedlak, GM Bojan Vuckovic, and GM Milos Perunovic. The first book was printed in April 2005 and in September that year it was published in English and became the official book of European youth championship in Herceg Novi. The second book appeared in April 2006 and it was also the official championship book of the European youth championship in September.

Content of "Chess school 3" consists of lectures which resulted from work with most successful students. The book is divided into three parts:

1. Rook endings

2. Miraculous world of combinations and

3. Strategic motives I and II

What is new that this book offers?

Rook endings were divided into several elements so that studying this segment of chess opus would become easier. Different plans of the game were emphasized and principles and rules were formulated. Mistakes in positional judgement analyses made in some well-known chess books were corrected in many places.

The second part of the book is related to a new theory of combinations, where Botvinnik's definition of combination is base of it.

All the combinations were classified according to the sacrificed piece and the aim. The main idea is to allow discovering and defining new principles of combination and to improve quality of preparation. The third part of the book consists of two wholes. In the first whole three strategic moves are discussed and the gist of it is in analyzing the game in a new way, finding a critical moment and explaining it in detail. A special place in this part of the book belongs to Nimzowitsch's traditional view of blockade from 1925. In the second whole a new idea is proposed regarding the classification of a middlegame. Middlegames are systematized according to the pieces on the board. If we take a broader look at this idea, then a systematization of every chess position can be made, which means it is possible to define the rules in an easier and faster way. This enables formation of a new system for preparing top-level players.

Content:
003 Introduction

005 Acknowledgments

PART ONE

(Rooks endings)

010 Mate with two rooks

011 Mate with the rook

014 Rook vs. 1 pawn

017 Rook vs. 2 pawns

019 Rook vs. 3 pawns

023 Rook and 1 pawn vs. the rook

035 Rook vs. rook and 2 pawns

048 Rook and 1 pawn vs. rook and 1 pawn

051 Rook and 2 pawns vs. rook and 2 pawns

054 Rook and 3 pawns vs. rook and 3 pawns

058 Rook and 4 pawns vs. rook and 4 pawns

061 Rook and 5 pawns vs. rook and 5 pawns

063 Rook and 6 pawns vs. rook and 6 pawns

067 Rook and 2 pawns vs. rook and 1 pawn

074 Rook and 3 pawns vs. rook and 2 pawns

083 Rook and 4 pawns vs. rook and 3 pawns

090 Rook and 5 pawns vs. rook and 4 pawns

091 Endings with four rooks

095 Rook vs. 2 rooks

PART TWO (Miraculous world of combinations)

101 Theory of combinations brief summary

Combinations with sacrifice:

103 - two knights

107 - bishop and knight

112 - two bishops

116 - rook and knight

124 - rook and bishop

130 - queen and knight

134 - queen and bishop

PART THREE

(Strategic motives I and IT)

141 Strategic motives I and II

142 Attack on point e6

147 Passed pawn in the center

153 Blocking the center with pieces

157 Top players preparation

160 Light pieces

162 King's Indian defense

178 Index of names

181 Contents