Power-Strategie 2 - Das Mittelspiel - statische Stellungen topmaterial 15 The best years 1969–1973

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He shows you how to use these checkmate motifs in your own games to defeat your opponents in style

Majesty’s Magnificence

Many chess fans want to improve

Power-Strategie 2 - Das Mittelspiel - statische Stellungen topmaterial 15 The best years 1969–1973As in real life, chess is always tempting you to take a pawn, occupy an open file, launch a king attack, and so on. In principle, there is little to object to, but before taking such concrete steps, you should be sure that the position is ripe for it. Chess is so complicated that calculation alone is often not enough to find the right move. General rules and principles then help us to distinguish what we would like to do from what we can actually do.