Evgeny Bareev: Say No to Chess Principles!

Thinkers Publishing, paperback, Englisch, ISBN: 978-94-9251-051-8, 276 Seiten, 2019.

Chess has very strict, but also fairly simple, rules: rapid development, control of the center with pawns or pieces, timely castling and defense of the king, the creation of various weaknesses in the opponent’s position, attacking those weaknesses, and control of open lines. At the same time a player shouldn’t get his queen stuck in the enemy camp, or ruin his own pawn structure. Those who know these rules will succeed.

It is necessary for a chess player to know opening and endgame theory, standard combinations and motifs, as well as pawn structures and many other things. A lot of the topics listed demand a very straightforward type of thinking or approach. However it also happens that chess players oft en discover significant resources which formally exist outside the typical rules of chess. Th ose who know how to break all the rules and work around those specific guidelines reach the very top. Currently, when thousands of chess books dissect the same standard ideas in great detail, let us remember that first there were those who originally discovered them, implemented them, and made them standard, as well as those who broke the rules and created completely new ones.


Inbhaltsverzeichnis:
Foreword
What this book is about
Chapter 1. Play without castling
Chapter 2. A queen behind enemy lines
Chapter 3. When a piece in the center is grim
Chapter 4. A piece down in a worse position
Chapter 5. At the edge of the board
Chapter 6. Killer delayed castling
Chapter 7. Rewards of doubled pawns
Summary of Evgeny Bareev's chess career
Games index


Evgeny Bareev is a well-known Russian grandmasters. He was Kramniks second during the matches against Kasparov in 2000 and against Leko in 2004, and was in close contact with the Kramnik team during the scandal-plagued match with Topalov in Elista. Ilya Levitov has been an ardent chess amateur all his life. He is a close friend of Vladimir Kramnik and Evgeny Bareev.

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