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Secrets of
Practical Chess
New Enlarged Edition
John Nunn
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First published in the UK by Gambit Publications Ltd 2007
Reprinted 2008
Original edition published 1998
Copyright ©John Nunn 1998, 2007
The right of John Nunn to be identiied as the author of this work has been as­
serted in accordance with the Copyight, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by
way of rade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any
form of binding or cover other thn that in which it is published and without a sii­
lar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
ISBN-13: 978-1-904600-70-1
ISBN-10: 1-90460-70-0
(First edition: ISBN-10: 1-901983-01-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-901983-01-2)
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Edited by Grahm Burgess
ypeset by John Nunn
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Printed in Great Britin by The Cromwell Press, Trowbidge, Wilts.
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Gambit ublicatios Ltd
Managing Director: Muray Chandler GM
Chess Director: Dr John Nunn GM
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Geman Editor: Petra Nunn WFM
Webmaster: Dr Helen Milligan WFM
Contents
Introduction
5
1 At the Board
8
Decision-maing
8
The Tree of Analysis revisited
8
Evaluation functions
15
When to analyse
19
DAUT
22
Safety-nets
27
When the tactics ave to work
29
Implicit commitments
31
Positional thinking
35
The method of comparison
45
Making your opponent think
47
Oversights and blunders
50
Wning signals
52
'Hard-to-see' moves
56
Time-trouble
60
Laziness
63
Deteination
4
2 The Opening
68
Building a repertoire
68
Using opening books
70
Books on obeat openings
71
3 The Middlegame
83
Good positions
83
Bad positions
89
Attack
99
'Inviting everyone to the party'
99
Over-sacriicing
104
Defence
16
4
SECRETS OF PRACTICAL CHESS
113
4 The Endgame
King and Pawn endings
113
Opposition
113
The Reti manoeuvre
118
Tiangulation
119
Expect the unexpected
121
Chess is more than counting
123
Rook endings
125
Rook and Pawn vs Rook
126
The extra Pawn
129
Positional advantage
136
Minor-piece endings
139
140
Knight endings
Bishop vs Knight endings
142
Bishop endings
144
Queen endings
148
Queen and Pawn vs Queen
148
The extra Pawn
153
Common endings without Pawns
156
Rook vs minor piece
156
Rook and minor piece vs Rook
159
Quick-play inishes
165
5 Using a Computer
167
Game databases
169
Playing engines
184
Limitations of computer analysis
192
Case study 1: Poisoned Pawn
196
Case study 2: Rossolimo Sicilian with 3 ...g6
209
Online chess
218
6 Chess Literature
220
Choosing a book
220
Mistakes
222
Book review I: Rapid Chess Improvement by Michael de Ia Mza
244
Book review 2: Basic Chess Endings by Reuben Fine
246
Recommended reading
250
253
Index of Names
Index of Openings
255
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