Description
Fortify Your Defenses (Download)
by Harold Zinner
Every chess player likes to attack. Every chess player likes to put pressure on their opponent. But when the tables are turned, and we become the target of an attack, we may feel uncomfortable, anxious, and insecure. Yet we can save an incredible number of defensive positions if we know the techniques and rules-of-thumb.
As a coach of the Austrian national women›s team for many years and as a certified psychological trainer, International Master Harald Schneider-Zinner shares his experience and knowledge, with the aim of strengthening your chess resistance. He demonstrates numerous methods and defensive ideas and gives lots of psychological tips. Topics such as sense of danger; ghosts; emergency brake; trend; on and on; and many other innovative approaches are discussed in detail. After studying, you too may be among the chess players who can offer amazing resistance, even in bad positions, and drive the attacker to despair!
- Video running time: 5 h 10 minutes
- Interactive training including video feedback
- Extra: Training with ChessBase apps - Play key positions against Fritz on various levels
Contents
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Introduction Ding Liren vs Nepomniachtchi
- Introduction Model Games
- Chapter 2.1 - Mental strength and powerful defensive moves
- Resilience
- Playing On and on
- Hasty resignation
- Finding only moves 1
- Finding only moves 2
- Comparison
- Elimination
- Sense of Danger 1
- Sense of Danger 2
- Sense of Danger 3
- Creating phantoms 1
- Creating phantoms 2
- Chapter 2.2 - Mental strength and powerful defensive moves
- Emergency brake 1
- Emergency brake 2
- Transition into an inferior endgame 1
- Transition into an inferior endgame 2
- Setting a trap
- Bucking the trend 1
- Bucking the trend 2
- Hanging pieces – so what?!
- The bread-and-butter principle
- Chapter 3 - Typical maneuvers
- Capablanca's advice: Not too many, not too few
- Petrosian's Knight
- Tower of strength
- Wing play 1
- Wing play 2
- Eliminate attackers
- Returning material
- Defensive exchange sacrifice
- Protective Shield
- Little King moves
- Passed pawns
- Enigmatic Queen move
- Chapter 4 - The final hope
- Stalemate
- Perpetual checks
- Removing pawns 1
- Removing pawns 2
- A fortress motif 1
- A fortress motif 2
- A fortress motif 3
- Chapter 5.1 Exercises
- Description
- Exercises 1 - 10
- Chapter 5.2 Exercises
- Description
- Exercises 11 - 19