Mauricio Flores Rios provides an in-depth study of the 28 most common structures in chess practice. In Chess Structures - A Grandmaster Guide you will find:
- Carefully selected model games showing each structure’s main plans and ideas
- Strategic patterns to observe and typical pitfalls to avoid
- 50 positional exercises with detailed solutions
GM Axel Bachmann from the Foreword:
“Chess Structures - A Grandmaster Guide is an excellent selection of model games. By studying the 140 games and fragments in this book, the reader will learn many of the most important plans, patterns and ideas in chess.&rdquo
Mauricio Flores Rios is a grandmaster from Chile. He achieved the title at eighteen, and is a regular member of Chile’s Olympic team. Mauricio combines his career as a chess player and trainer with his PhD studies in Mathematics at the University of Minnesota.
Content005 Foreword by Axel Bachmann
006 Keys to Symbols used and Bibliography
007 Preface
009 Introduction
Family One - d4 and ...d5
012 1. The Isolani
036 2. Hanging Pawns
051 3. Caro-Kann Formation
069 4. Slav Formation
086 5. The Carlsbad Formation
103 6. Stonewall
122 7. Grünfeld Centre
Family Two - Open Sicilian
138 8. Najdorf Type I
155 9. Najdorf Type II
178 10. The Hedgehog
205 11. The Maroczy
Family Three - Benoni
226 12. Asymmetric Benoni
242 13. Symmetric Benoni
Family Four - King’s Indian
261 14. KID Type I
281 15. KID Type II
297 16. KID Type III
323 17. Open KID
338 18. KID Complex
Family Five - French
353 19. French Type I
364 20. French Type II
383 21. French Type III
Miscellaneous
400 22. Various Structures
400 The 3-3 vs. 4-2 Structure
403 The Panov Structure
408 The Dragon Formation
411 The Scheveningen Structure
415 The Benko Structure
417 The Closed Ruy Lopez
421 The Lopez Formation
Training
424 23 Exercises
437 24. Solutions
460 Name Index
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