Contents:

007 From the author

Part one
010 The analysis of adjourned positions
011 An adjournment session that decided a match
014 Don`t hinder one another!
018 Traps found in analysis
021 Prize for the best ending
025 A study generated by mistake
028 I choose a plan that is not the strongest!
033 How hard it is to win a won position!
039 An incomplete analysis
043 Give me an envelope, please
048 Even grandmasters make mistakes
052 Flippancy is punished!
060 It is possible to be excessively serious?
064 The benefit of 'abstract' knowledge
068 A difficult analysis
073 Exercises for analysis

Part two
076 The endgame
077 The king establishes a record
083 Commentaries without variations
087 Mined squares
090 My first analysis
096 The transition into a pawn endgame
102 The fortress
113 The reward for tenacious defence
120 The principle of two weaknesses
124 Twin endings
128 Defence by frontal attack
133 Rook against pawns
138 A great master of the endgame
141 The strongest piece is the rook!
146 Like-colour bishops
149 Opposite-colour bishops
156 What remained off-stage
161 An amazing coincidence
167 Aerobatics
172 Exercises for analysis

Part three
176 Studies
177 Let training commence!
185 Deep calculation
190 Studies by grandmasters
193 Study ideas in practice
196 Playing exercises
200 Reciprocal playing
203 Exactly as in a study
207 The 'brillance and poverty' of studies
210 Exercises for analysis

215 Solutions to exercises

Appendix
254 Index by material
256 Index of exercises by thinking skills and types of problems to be solved
258 Index of players and analysts