New Ideas in Chess

According to author Larry Evans, grand master chess players are notoriously inarticulate about their own thought processes. So Evans analyzed his own tournament games (both won and lost) and here offers players a sound grasp of the principles that can help them defeat an opponent. Serious students can learn how to recognize and advantage and exploit it. 196 diagrams.

Foreword

v

Chessboard Notation

x

The Evolution of Chess

1

(21)

Chess up to the Time of Morphy

1

(3)

Paul Morphy and the Romantics: Open Game

4

(5)

Wilhelm Steinitz and the Classicists: Closed Game

9

(3)

Reti and the Hypermoderns: Flank Game

12

(3)

The Technicians: Neo-Classical School

15

(2)

The Eclectics

17

(5)

Pawn Structure

22

(51)

The Outside Passed Pawn

22

(2)

Pawn Structure Determines Strategy

24

(1)

Pawn Mobility

25

(7)

Passed Pawns

32

(4)

Connected, Isolated and Backward Pawns

36

(10)

Doubled and Tripled Pawns

46

(6)

Weak Squares

52

(8)

Pawn Chains

60

(7)

The Bad Bishop

67

(1)

The Queen Side Majority

68

(5)

Force

73

(23)

Table of Relative Values

73

(2)

The General Pattern for Converting Force into Victory

75

(1)

The Two Bishops

75

(13)

The Positional Sacrifice

88

(2)

The Temporary Sacrifice

90

(6)

Space

96

(27)

The Center

96

(1)

Mobility

97

(1)

Control of Unoccupied Squares

97

(1)

A Typical Space Advantage

97

(1)

How to Count Space

98

(1)

Stability

98

(1)

How to Test Stability

99

(24)

Time

123

(23)

Gambits

124

(17)

Pins

141

(5)

Quiz

146

(16)

Caution

146

(1)

Problems

147

(6)

Solutions

153

(9)

New Approach to the Openings

162

(17)

Evaluation

162

(3)

Is the First Move an Advantage?

165

(1)

Master Practice

166

(1)

The Failure of Traditional Evaluation

166

(4)

A Self-Contained Evaluation

170

(1)

The First Move

171

(1)

Reverse Openings

172

(3)

The Theory of Symmetrical Positions

175

(4)

Summing Up

179

(3)

The Stable Elements

179

(1)

The Unstable Elements

180

(2)

Bibliography

182

(1)

Index of Opponents

183

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