Master chess psychologist Amatzia Avni outlines a new approach to playing chess - be tricksy about your game, bend the rules where possible and always come out on top! Players of all abilities are urged, step-by-step, to unlearn everything they've learned so far and adopt a fearless attitude to the game. Every tip for bending the rules is included here with comprehensive illustrated games. This essential guide covers:

• The Nature of Tricky Chess: Virgin land

• Raising the tension to boiling point

• Coffeehouse chess

• Not so elementary, my dear Watson

• Peculiar moves

• Principled Issues of 'Tricky Chess': Twists and turns

• The trap vs blunder dilemma

• Methods of conducting 'tricky chess'

• Illustrative Games

• Assesment and Implementation: Evaluation of tricksy chess

• Transforming into a 'tricky chess' player

- Bending the rules makes chess more fun and enhances the skills and imagination of all players

- Expert guidance from a highly respected chess psychologist and Master

- Accessible information and illustrative games for players of all abilities

- A strategy/tactics book ideal for club players