How to beat your dad at chess
This book explains the best way to beat a stronger opponent (whether a friend, a clubmate, or even Dad) in the opening stages of the game and shows the fifty most effective opening traps that chess masters use to win games.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Gambit,
1998
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Table of Contents:
- Anastasia's mate
- The missing defensive f-pawn
- The Arabian mate
- Philidor's legacy
- Semi-smothered mate
- Single rook sacrifice on h8
- Double rook sacrifice on h8
- Damiano's mate
- Taimanov's knight check
- The see-saw
- The Petrosian draw
- The rook h8+ & knight xf7+ trick
- Blackburne's mate
- Boden's mate
- Other queenside mates
- The double rook sacrifice
- The double bishop sacrifice
- Morphy's mate
- Pillsbury's mate
- The crafty bishop g8
- The rook sacrifice on g7
- A knight on f5 (1)
- A knight on f5 (2)
- Rook decoy on h7
- The queen & bishop mate
- Greco's mate
- More queen g6 bombshells
- Korchnoi's manoeuvre
- The bishop xh6 sacrifice
- The queen & bishop line-up
- Removing the f6 defender
- The Greek gift (1)
- The Greek gift (2)
- The Greek gift (3)
- The Greek gift (4)
- Mate on the long diagonal
- Weak dark squares
- Blackburne's other mate
- Lolli's mates
- Back-rank mates
- The refined back-rank mate
- More back-rank mates
- Rook deflections
- Two rooks on the seventh
- Anderssen's mate
- Pawn on the seventh rank
- Legall's mate
- The bishop sacrifice on f7
- Knight sacrifices on f7 & e6
- The Fischer trap.
