Renowned grandmaster Artur Yusupov completes his course of chess improvement. Volume 1, The Fundamentals, showed club chess players the basic ideas they should know; Volume 2, Beyond the Basics, set off on the road to mastery, and now in Volume 3 we arrive 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 , from Germany, was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary Karpov and Kasparov. In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from current World Champion Vishy Anand and many other top grandmasters, to talented juniors and local amateurs in Germany.

Content:
004 Key to symbols used

005 Preface

006 Introduction

008 1 Combinations involving promotion

020 2 Evaluation of the position

034 3 Pawn endings

044 4 Rook against bishop

056 5 Opening repertoire for White with 1.d4

068 6 The isolated pawn

082 7 Playing against the isolated pawn

094 8 Simple tactics

104 9 The backward pawn

114 10 Bishop endings

124 11 French Defence

138 12 Training with studies

148 13 Blockade

160 14 Drawing combinations

168 15 Opposite-coloured bishops

178 16 Opening repertoire for White with 1.d4

192 17 The elimination method

200 18 Hanging pawns

212 19 Playing against hanging pawns

226 20 Simple tactics 2

236 21 Doubled pawns

248 22 Opening repertoire for Black against 1.d4

260 23 The comparison method

272 24 Rook against knight

282 Final test

Appendices

292 Index of composers

293 Index of games

300 Recommended books