Description
Improve Your Pieces - A Winning System You Need To Know (Download)
by RB Ramesh
A highly effective method to enhance your understanding of chess involves recognizing optimal placements for your pieces and adapting to evolving board conditions. In situations devoid of forced tactics, devising a strategic plan becomes imperative. Rather than solely aiming for victory or advantage, prioritizing the enhancement of individual piece positions and roles often proves more manageable. Even the simple act of improving your least effective piece can bolster your overall game without succumbing to uncertainty in evaluation.
And who better to glean insights from than one of the world's premier trainers? With a track record of coaching numerous chess luminaries, including the esteemed Indian prodigy Praggnanandhaa, RB Ramesh stands out as a beacon of expertise. Through meticulously chosen examples, he underscores the significance of reorganizing your pieces while offering easily memorized guidelines.
- Video running time: More than 4 hours (English)
- Instructive examples
- Extra: Database with exercises & Training with ChessBase apps – Play key positions against Fritz on various levels
Contents
- Introduction
- Identifying passive pieces
- Themes
- Piece Play: Example 1 - Renet vs Jussopow
- Dynamic vs static positions: Example 2 - Karpov vs Schauwecker
- Compare and evaluate: Example 3 - Kasparov vs Huebner
- Improving a good-looking piece: Example 4 - Klimov vs Fominyh
- Activity of the pieces: Example 5 - Miton vs Bulski
- Multiple ideas: Example 6 - Kindermann vs Tatai
- Identify the worst piece: Example 7 - Short vs Vaganian
- The jobless piece: Example 8 - Adams vs Bacrot
- Playing on colors: Example 9 - Salgado Lopez vs Caruana
- Quiet moves: Example 10 - Karpov vs Spassky
- The hidden moves: Example 11 - So vs Heine Nielsen
- Dominant piece play: Example 12 - Petrosian vs Gulko
- Finding resources: Example 13 - Giri vs Tomashevsky
- The art of focusing our pieces: Example 14 - Garcia Martinez vs Pigusov
- Conclusion
- Practice Positions
- Description
- Position 1: Vidit vs Roiz, 2018
- Position 2: Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1983
- Position 3: Tkachiev vs Ivanov, 2014
- Position 4: Wang Hao vs Caruana, 2013
- Position 5: Nakamura vs Gelfand, 2012
- Position 6: Carlsen vs Mamedyarov, 2014
- Position 7: Morozevich vs Shirov, 1999
- Position 8: Korchnoi vs Hamann, 1978
- Position 9: Polugaevsky vs Petrosian, 1981
- Position 10: Nevednichy vs Sideif Sade, 1979
- Bonus
- Analysis
- Exercises