Positional Decision Making In Chess: A Look into the Mind of a Top Grandmaster - Softcover

Boris Gelfand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784832693 ISBN 13: 9781784832698

Publisher: Quality Chess, 2015

Synopsis

Positional Decision Making in Chess offers a rare look into the mind of a top grandmaster. In his efforts to explain his way of thinking, Boris Gelfand focuses on such topics as the squeeze, space advantage, the transformation of pawn structures and the transformation of advantages. Based on examples from his own games and those of his hero, Akiba Rubinstein, Gelfand explains how he thinks during the game.

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About the Authors

Grandmaster Boris Gelfand won the European Junior Championship in 1987 and reached No. 3 in the World in 1990. He has led the Israeli team to numerous medals at both European and Olympiad level. Gelfand won the 2009 World Cup and has participated in six Candidates cycles, winning it in 2011. He lost the 2012 World Championship match in the play-off. At 46 he is still winning tournaments ahead of the best players in the world, in many cases men half his own age.

Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard is the most talented chess writer of his generation. He won the British Championship in 2007, but is mostly known for his multi-award-winning books and his work with students who have won club, state, national, continental and world championships, as well as Olympiad individual golds and team golds, the World Cup and Candidates tournament.

Edition details

• Publisher: Quality Chess
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784832693
• ISBN 13: 9781784832698
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288