The Modern Chess Instructor, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Steinitz, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1451015283 ISBN 13 : 9781451015287

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

The Modern Chess Instructor, Vol. 1 offers clear, practical guidance to improve your chess judgment and technique. This edition emphasizes systematic analysis built on general ideas to help students understand similar positions.

Steinitz focuses on practical play, annotating illustrative games to show how principles unfold in real positions. The text introduces new ideas and carefully notes where traditional lines diverge from modern practice, inviting you to test them in your own games.

Expect accessible explanations, thoughtful commentary, and diagrams that illuminate key ideas in openings, the middlegame, and the King’s side attack. The notes aim to sharpen reasoning, improve decision-making, and encourage theoretical exploration.

• Step-by-step explanations of chess principles and how they apply to real games


• Illustrative games with annotations that show practical outcomes


• Discussion of novelties and how modern ideas change classic lines


• New layout features like move-number repetition and diagrams for easier study

Ideal for dedicated students and serious hobbyists who want a structured, theory-based approach to improve at chess.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The chief purport of the work on Chess, of which the present volume forms the first part, is the theoretical application of new principles and of the reasoning by analogies of positions which have been my guide in practice, especially during the last twenty years. It is perhaps unnecessary to state that the task which I have set before me was beset with enormous difficulties. Many variations that have been the product of vast changes in the style of play which has taken place in modern times, have no doubt been duly noticed in able treatises on the game, but no attempt has yet been made in any book on Chess to base the analysis systematically on general ideas which would assist the judgment of the student in similar positions. In the present work great efforts are essayed in that direction, especially in the annotation of illustrative games from practical play where the results of the application of the principles recommended for the conduct of the openings and the middle part can be more distinctly traced in the end. But as will be seen from the few examples given in this volume, of reasoning out the opening moves by comparison of different maxims, it would have been practically impossible within the scope of this work to adopt the same sort of commentation throughout the analysis of the openings, and I had to confine myself in that respect to pointing out the most striking examples of the adaptation of principles in the early part of the game. However, I have carefully examined the debuts treated in this volume on the basis of such general maxims, and as the openings have been hitherto analysed by the authorities chiefly in an empirical manner, it became necessary to introduce a very large number of novelties at various stages of variations which, up to the present, had been generally recognized as standard lines of play. In short I have come to conclusion
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1451015283
• ISBN 13: 9781451015287
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 242
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible