Caruana - Caruana Ruy Lopez

Stukken in palmhout gebeitst, verzwaard en gevilt. Deze stukken horen bij een schaakbord met velden van 50mm.
Koningshoogte: 10cm (voetbreedte 4cm). Hoogte van de pion: 5cm (voetbreedte: 3cm).

Georgy Lisitsin (1909-72) was a respected Soviet master, theoretician and writer. In 1958 he published a revised edition of his most ambitious work, entitled Strategy and Tactics of Chess, which became one of the most legendary manuals in the Soviet chess school, and no doubt one of the books that motivated the young Bobby Fischer to learn Russian.

Lisitsin broke down Strategy and Tactics into their key constituent elements, enabling players of all levels to study chess systematically, learning from carefully selected game fragments and studies. Key Elements of Chess Tactics and its companion volume Key Elements of Chess Strategy are the first ever complete English translations of Lisitsin’s classic.

In Key Elements of Chess Tactics, Lisitsin illustrates key tactical concepts such as pinning, discovered attacks and checks, deflection, interference and many more, building a foundation before moving on to more complex and beautiful tactical themes. Hardcover 392 pages

Employée assez régulièrement dans les grands tournois jusque vers 1920, la défense scandinave (1.e4 d5) s'était ensuite vue affligée d'une réputation douteuse et avait été reléguée au rang de curiosité exotique à l'usage des excentriques, à peine tirée de l'oubli par la célèbre victoire de Larsen sur Karpov au tournoi de Montreal 1979. Un important travail théorique mené depuis une dizaine d'années a conduit à sa réhabilitation, et ce CD Rom vient faire le point sur sa pratique récente. Comme toujours, vous y trouverez une base de données exhaustive (29.000 parties), de nombreuses parties commentées, des textes explicatifs et douze parties d'entraînement pour tester vos connaissances nouvellement acquises.

In my first book I wanted to enlighten the reader on those various lines that were

less explored, and those that have been almost forgotten but were nevertheless

interesting.

However this time the book is about cutting-edge lines, which is a very

modern approach to this fascinating opening. Moreover it is important to say that

when I was writing my first book a few years ago, surprisingly, some of these current

lines simply didn’t exist, or were only discussed in a very minor way.

It is true that the Grünfeld fits in very well with the engines’ way of playing chess,

and in that sense it’s almost the perfect opening with which to implement and generate

such ideas.

Let’s have a look now at what I mean and start reading my findings!

GM Milos Pavlovic, January 2024.