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701 28 Batsford Chess Library Positional Play Mark Dvoretsky and Artur Yusupov With contributions from: Vladimir Kramnik Evgeny Bareev Igor Khenkir Aleksei Kosikov Translated by Sarah J. Young ® An Owl Book Henry Holt and Company New York a (90 ‘5h Henry Holt and Company, Inc, Publishers since 1866 LIS West 18th Street New York, New York 10011 Yey Holt® is a registered ‘ademark of Henry Holt and Company, Inc ‘Copyright © 1996 by Mark Dvoretsky and Artur Yusupov All rights reserved. itzhemry & Whiteside Ltd,, state Parkway, Markham, Ontario L3R 4T8. First published in the United States in 1996 by published in Great B. T. Batsford Ltd. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 95-8 1564 ISBN 0-8050-4729-8 (An Owl Book: pbk.) First American Edition—1996 Printed in the United Kingdom All first editions are printed on acid-free paper w98 7654321 Contents 2. Manoeuvring (Artur Yusupov) 3. Competition in solving positional exercises (Mark Dvoretsky) Part 2: Methods of seeking positional solutions 7 Sensing the tempo (Alexei Kosikov) 8 Positional transformations (Mark Dvoretsky) Part 3: Typical Positions 9. Opposite-coloured bishops inthe middlegame (Mark Dvoretsky) 10 You cannot manage without combinations! (Mark Dvoretsky) 11 Modern treatment of the Dutch Defence (Igor Khenkin and Viadimir Kramnik) Part 4: Complicated Strategy in practical play 12 Grandmaster Strategy (Evgeny Bareev) 13 Whose strategy will triumph? (Mark Dvoretsky) Part 5 14 From the ercative art of our students (Artur Yusupov) 46 58 ra 128 145 198 232 260 279 Introduction Mark Dvoretsky the Tournament Player, Opening Preparation and Technique forthe Tournament Player), 1 would like to make it clear that we have car- ried out various thematic sessions atthe school, devoted to important areas of chess development. We have not had enough time to pub- lish the whole necessary su helping them get rid ofthese weak- nesses, demonstrating more effec- tive ways of studying chess, and the most general laws, ideas and methods of conducting battles. ‘basis of all the books in this series. ‘The one before you now is no ex- is devoted to improving ingly use this delusion, claiming that they know the single correct route ~ new, original, and furthermore still a secret, In fact there are a great number of roads to this aim, but none of them is easy. ‘You have to master various ways of s, will help you to do this. In the first and second part the book the authors will famitiar- ise the reader with various facets of positional battles, approaches to developing positional play, and ways of finding solutions to posi- tional problems. You will see that it sometimes makes sense to con- sider (even one and the same prob- Jem) in various different ways ~for ‘example, the conceptof playing on different flanks in Yusupov’s and Kosikov's lectures. ‘Amongst the ideas which I de- velop in my own lectures, advise you to pay particular attention to the theme of ‘Prophylactic Think- ing’. You will see why this theme is 50 important to the chess player when you have read the lecture principle for effe chess!). The programme of every session of the school consists not only of lectures, but also training exercises. You will find descrip- tions of these exercises in the first and third parts of the book. {n the session described in this ‘book, which took place at the be- ginning of 1992, two very talented young masters (who soon became Kramnik and Khenkin simultane- ously showed their understanding Of the situations which are inherent in their ideas. With precisely these Introduction 5 means contemporary chess players usually master typical positions are char of the ‘openings in their repertoire. An- other approach to studying typical positions in the middlegame is suggested in my lecture, also in part 3 of the book. ‘The fourth part is devoted and the diffrent approaches 19 taking a decision of such notable grandmasters as Artur Yusupov and Evgeny Barcey, Incidentally, I should point out that Yusupoy, hav- ing taken up residence in Germany in 1991, unfortunately did not take lowed Yusupov to make use of sxames played two to three years particular Anand’s pressive game played by Yusupov himself at a tournament in Swit- zerland in 1994. ‘Then we have Bareev’s mate- rial, which really was given as a

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