Alojzije Jankovic: The Grandmaster Mindset

Thinkers' Publishing, paperback, Englisch, ISBN: 978-94-9251-077-8, 198 Seiten, 2020.

The Grandmaster Mindset - A First Course to Chess Improvement.

"To be able to raise your level of play you will need to work hard on your chess. This book will arm you with some important chess ideas and skills but, more importantly, you will get into the grandmaster's mind. I don’t want you to play chess the following way: he attacked me - I need to move away, I attacked him - he needs to retreat. Everyone can play like that. No, I want something completely different, I want you to think this way: how can I make a counterattack? He is controlling that square, I can’t put my piece there, wait, or can I? By this critical and creative thinking you will dig deeper into the positions and be able to spot moves or bonds between pieces which you couldn’t see before. And, what's even more important, you will see more than your opponent!”

Grandmaster Alojzije Jankovic

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Chapter 1 - Pin
Chapter 2 - Candidate moves
Chapter 3 - Useful endgames
Chapter 4 - Knight geometry
Chapter 5 - Back-rank mate
Chapter 6 - Lure the king
Chapter 7 - Unexpected moves
Chapter 8 - Power of the rooks
Chapter 9 - Sudden attack on the king
Chapter 10 - Burying
Chapter 11 - Underpromotion to a Knight
Chapter 12 - Different tactical motifs
- Smothered mate
- Stalemate
- Windmill
- Trapping the queen
- Blockade

Alojzije Jankovic (1983) is a grandmaster and FIDE trainer from Croatia. In 2010 he shared first pl ace in the Croatian National Championship, was national champion in 2015, shared third place with Croatia in the European Team Championships 2017 and played for Croatia in the Olympiad. He won several international tournaments and also hosts weekly the broadcast 'Chess commentary', Croatian national tv, third channel. This is his second book for Thinkers Publishing, after his successful co-edition with GM Z. Kozul on the 'Richter Rauzer Reborn' updated version 2019.

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