BUILD UP YOUR CHESS 2 Beyond the Basics

Author: Artur Yusupov
Release year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 24 x 17 cm
Cover: Soft

Renowned chess teacher and grandmaster Artur Yusupov continues his complete course of chess improvement. Volume 1, The Fundamentals, showed club chess players the basic ideas they should know.

Now Volume 2, Beyond the Basics, sets off on the road to mastery.

Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of exercises.

A substantial and methodical course in which study material is introduced in progressing difficulty.

If you never had a chess coach, then here is your chance to experience the way Soviet coaches used to drill their pupils - without feeling their breath in your neck. Extremely good practical study and exercise material.

Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary World Champions Karpov and Kasparov. He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship. In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from current World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.