Chess Middlegames: Essential Knowledge (Cadogan Chess Books) - Softcover

Yuri Averbakh was one of the leading Soviet grandmasters for two decades, competing in the USSR Championship 15 times between 1949 and 1969. He finished in an extremely respectable 10th place in the famous Zurich Candidates' tournament of 1953. His previous books for Cadogan include Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge and Chess Middlegames: Essential Knowledge and the monumental five-volume series Comprehensive Chess Endings.

In this companion volume to his classic 'Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge,' Grandmaster Averbakh takes the reader through the various steps to success in the middlegame. He explains the tactical skills and positional strategies that every chessplayer needs to master. Topics covered include coordinating the pieces, attack and defence, combinations and sacrifices, and much more. Yuri Averbakh is a former Soviet champion and world championship candidate. He is also the author of the five-volume treatise 'Comprehensive Chess Endings' (also translated by Ken Neat) and the perennially popular 'Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge.' (5 3/4' X 8 1/4', 112 pages, illustrations)