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BL
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857139
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| Main Entry
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Kotov, A. A.
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| Title & Author
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Think Like a Grandmaster.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Pavilion Books Company Limited,, 2012.
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| Series Statement
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Batsford Chess
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1 online resource (348 pages).
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| ISBN
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1849940533
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: 9781849940535
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0713478853
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9780713478853
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| Contents
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Symbols; Preface; Introduction: An Unusual Experiment; 1 Analysis of Variations; Do you Know how to Analyse?; Historical Digression; The Tree of Analysis; Forced and Unforced Variations; Different Types of Tree; Bare Trunk; A 'Coppice'; 'Thickets of Variations'; Selection of Candidate Moves; What is a Candidate Move?; 'Creeping Moves'; Gross Blunders; Dizziness due to Success; Conditioned Reflexes; The Blind Spot; Through the Eyes of a Patzer -- Blumenfeld's Rule; More Practical Advice; To Analyse or Not to Analyse?; Positions for Analysis or Judgement.
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The CentreClosed Centre; Open Centre; Mobile Centre; Fixed Centre; Tension in the Centre; Exercises; 4 The Ending; 5 A Player's Knowledge; Opening Study; Is it Possible to Study the Middlegame?; Adjourned Games; Advice on Various Questions; Chess and Life; The Factors of Success; Know Your Opponent; Know Thyself!; Solutions to the Exercises; Index of Names.
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Trust your Opponent or Not?Time-trouble; Exercises; 2 Positional Judgement; Open Lines and Diagonals; Modern Ideas on Open Lines; Pawn Structure and Weak Squares; Weak Squares; Passed Pawns; Pawn Islands; Weak Colour Complexes; The Position of the Pieces; Poor Position of a Number of Pieces; Space and the Centre; Exercises; An Experiment Continued; Imitate Botvinnik or Najdorf?; What is Concrete and What is General?; General Questions and Preparation; The Opening; Middlegame; The Ending; General Formulae and Concrete Analysis; 3 Planning; A Single Plan; Planlessness Punished; Be Flexible.
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| Abstract
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This is a well-established training manual which encourages the average player to understand how a grandmaster thinks, and even more important, how he works. Kotov tackles fundamental issues such as knowing how and when to analyze, the tree of analysis, a selection of candidate moves and the factors of success.
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Chess.
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Chess.
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| Dewey Classification
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794.1
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| LC Classification
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GV1451 .K384 2012
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