BUILD UP YOUR CHESS MASTERY volume 3 is the third and final volume in a trilogy by Artur Yusupov designed to assist the club level player in making the long quest to the Master title.
The contents of BUILD UP YOUR CHESS MASTERY volume 3 are as follows:
Preface 5
Introduction 6
1 Combinations involving promotion 8
2 Evaluation of the position 20
3 Pawn endings 34
4 Rook against bishop 44
5 Opening repertoire for White with 1.d4 56
6 The isolated pawn 68
7 Playing against the isolated pawn 82
8 Simple tactics 94
9 The backward pawn 104
10 Bishop endings 114
11 French Defence 124
12 Training with studies 138
13 Blockade 148
14 Drawing combinations 160
15 Opposite-coloured bishops 168
16 Opening repertoire for White with 1.d4 (Part 2) 178
17 The elimination method 192
18 Hanging pawns 200
19 Playing against hanging pawns 212
20 Simple tactics 2 226
21 Doubled pawns 236
22 Opening repertoire for Black against 1.d4 248
23 The comparison method 260
24 Rook against knight 272
Final test 282
Appendices
Index of composers 292
Index of games 293
Recommended books 300
BUILD UP YOUR CHESS MASTERY volume 3 is aimed at players rated around 2000 who want to make Master. In each of the 24 chapters Yusupov sets out to cover more advanced material than his two previous works, concentrating primarily on the middlegame. Each chapter starts with the introduction of a theme followed by progressively more difficult examples and finally exercises to solve with detailed solutions. Such an approach has been seen before but never as well done. One might ask why it is necessary to have such a high rated player write a book for less-advanced players? The answer is that Yusupov offers the rare combination of tremendous chess knowledge and the ability and desire to share it. BUILD UP YOUR CHESS MASTERY volume 3 is not a random collection of positions tossed together but carefully chosen ones that methodically build up the student’s knowledge from exercise to exercise.
Even the four chapters where Yusupov covers openings are designed to do more than provide a basic repertoire. His advocacy of the French and Queen’s Gambit Accepted for Black and the Zukertort (1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 and later b3) and Smyslov System versus the KID (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 0-0 5.Bg5) as White are partly about the merits of these opening systems but just as much or more to show how to develop sound systems to play.
This book will be useful to not only budding Masters to be, but especially those who coach them.
