Adrian Mikhalchishin: Power of planning

ChessBase Fritztrainer Strategie / Mittelspiel, Englisch, ISBN: 978-3-86681-141-6, 2009.

Niveau: Turnierspieler, Profi

Planning is the most difficult part of the game of chess. It is everywhere - we use it from the opening to the ending. A plan is based on evaluation and that evaluation is based on the different static and dynamic elements of the position. But what the chess books don’t describe is the direction of the plan. The aim of every plan is the exploitation of weakness! So, spot the weakness, fix it and then just attack it. There are different kinds of plans - typical plans, based on the structures and analogical plans, based on similar constellations of the pieces on the board. The subject is really big, but the author wanted to show examples of how to construct plans in positions with pawn majorities on the flanks and to teach you how to exploit this element properly. (Video running time: 3 hrs 19 min.)

Adrian Mikhalchishin, geboren 1954 in Lvov, Großmeister seit 1978, zählt aktuell zu den fünf besten Trainern der Welt und ist Vorsitzener der FIDE-Trainerkomission. Der Ukrainer coachte in den 1980er Jahren die Nationalmannschaften der UdSSR sowie von Slowenien, Polen und den Niederlanden. Außerdem war Mikhalchishin Trainer von Anatoly Karpov (1980-1986) und betreute auch Zsuzsa Polgar, Alexander Beliavsky, Maja Chiburdanidze, Arkadij Naiditsch und Vassily Ivanchuk.