Table Of ContentInstructive Chess Miniatures
Alper Efe Ataman
Lessons from 53 of the greatest short victories in chess history
Contents
Symbols
Bibliography
Foreword
Game 1: The Evergreen Game – Anderssen-Dufresne
Game 2: Inescapable Pins – Schulten-Morphy
Game 3: The Opera Game – Morphy-Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard
Game 4: Fury of the Hanging Queen – Reiner-Steinitz
Game 5: Bishop or Queen? It Depends... – Knorre-Chigorin
Game 6: Potential in a Cramped Position – Colburn-Blackburne
Game 7: The Tarrasch Trap – Tarrasch-Marco
Game 8: Square-Clearance – Steinitz-Von Bardeleben
Game 9: Pawn-Grabbing in the Opening – Mieses-Chigorin
Game 10: Rubinstein’s Heritage – Rotlewi-Rubinstein
A Similar Game: Aronian-Anand
Game 11: Undeveloped Queenside – Roesch-Schlage
Game 12: Just Like a Magnet... – Ed.Lasker-Thomas
Game 13: When the f-Pawn Marches... – Opočensky-Hrdina
Game 14: Improving the Pieces – Capablanca-Fonaroff
A Similar Game: Navara-M.Ivanov
Game 15: A Game of Cat and Mouse – E.Adams-C.Torre
Game 16: The Immortal Zugzwang Game – Sämisch-Nimzowitsch
Game 17: Once the Tension has been Released – Rubinstein-Hirschbein
Game 18: Open Up the Lines! – Glücksberg-Najdorf
Game 19: Those Isolated Queen’s Pawns... – Botvinnik-Vidmar
Game 20: Safety First! – Smyslov-Kottnauer
Game 21: The Double Bishop Sacrifice – Kirilov-Furman
Game 22: As Long as the King is Stuck in the Centre... – Spassky-
Avtonomov
A Similar Case: Gipslis-Darznieks
Game 23: Weak Squares – Boleslavsky-Smyslov
Game 24: Lack of Development – Soultanbéieff-Dubyna
Game 25: When Everything Goes According to Plan – Freeman-Mednis
Game 26: Prince Urusov’s Recipe – Neishtadt-Gipslis
Game 27: Lining Up on the Third Rank – Nezhmetdinov-Kotkov
Game 28: A Bolt from the Blue – Gaisert-I.Zaitsev
Game 29: Let’s Bring the King to the Centre! – Taimanov-Polugaevsky
Game 30: Fischer’s Provocation – Letelier-Fischer
Game 31: Mobilizing the Pawns – Bronstein-Geller
Game 32: In the Footsteps of Captain Evans – Fischer-Fine
A Similar Motif: Linden-Maczuski
Game 33: A Memorable Blockading Tactic – Fischer-Benko
Game 34: The Wrong Strategy against Tal – Tal-Tringov
Game 35: The Penalty for a Single Bad Move – Geller-Portisch
Game 36: An Inspiring Manoeuvre – Rossolimo-Reissmann
Game 37: When the Knight Takes the Stage... – Spassky-Petrosian
Game 38: Playing with Reversed Colours – Dvoretsky-Damsky
Game 39: ‘Chinese Torture’ – Liu Wenzhe-Donner
Game 40: Firepower in the Critical Zone – Kasparov-Marjanović
Game 41: Playing à la Petrosian... – Kasparov-Petrosian
Game 42: An 11-Year-Old Girl – Costa-J.Polgar
Game 43: Opening a Dangerous File – Watson-Meduna
Game 44: A Sacrifice to be Proud of – Handke-Murdzia
Game 45: Another Fabulous Blocking Idea – J.Polgar-Berkes
A Similar Case: Forintos-Zedek
Game 46: The Aura of Magnus Carlsen – Hammer-Carlsen
Game 47: The Rook’s Breathtaking Performance – Erdogdu – Shanava
Game 48: Piece-Play on the Kingside – Howell-Ashton
Game 49: The Power of the Zwischenzug – Friedel-De Jong
Game 50: A Terrifying (K)nightmare! – Rublevsky-Zude
Game 51: A Petroff Classic – Anand-Kasimdzhanov
Game 52: The Duel of the Veterans – Cebalo-Vasiukov
Game 53: Opera in St. Louis – So-Kasparov
Supplementary Games
Index of Players
Index of Openings
Copyright Information
About the Author
About Gambit Publications
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Symbols
+ check
++ double check
x captures
# checkmate
!! brilliant move
! good move
!? interesting move
?! dubious move
? bad move
?? blunder
0-0 castles kingside
0-0-0 castles queenside
1-0 The game ends in a win for White
½-½ The game ends in a draw
0-1 The game ends in a win for Black
Ch Championship
(n) nth match game
(D) see next diagram
Bibliography
Books
Attack and Defence, Mark Dvoretsky and Artur Yusupov, Batsford 1998
Beating 1 e4 e5 – A Repertoire for White in the Open Games, John Emms,
Everyman 2010
Build Up Your Chess 2, Artur Yusupov, Quality Chess 2008
Chess Brilliancy, Yakov Damsky, Everyman 2002
Chess Training for Post-Beginners, Yaroslav Srokovski, New in Chess 2014
Chinese School of Chess, Liu Wenzhe, Batsford 2002
Garry Kasparov’s Greatest Chess Games Volume 1, Igor Stohl, Gambit
Publications 2005
Judit Polgar Teaches Chess 1: How I Beat Fischer’s Record, Judit Polgar,
Quality Chess 2012
The Mammoth Book of the World’s Greatest Chess Games (3rd edition),
Graham Burgess, John Nunn and John Emms, Constable and Robinson 2010
Mastering Opening Strategy, Johan Hellsten, Everyman 2012
Satrançta Sistematik Antrenman (Das Systematische Schachtraining –
Edition Olms), Sergiu Samarian, Inkilap Kitabevi 1991
Starting Out: King’s Indian Attack, John Emms, Everyman 2005
Periodicals
Inside Chess (various issues)
New in Chess (various issues)
Digital Sources
Mega Database 2014, ChessBase GmbH
www.chessgames.com
Ustalar Nasil Kazaniyor 1-5 (How Masters Win 1-5), Selim Gürcan,
www.satrancokulu.com
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
