Lessons in Chess Strategy

Technical guidance and advice of a prestigious coach.

Valeri Beim this book presents a series of excellent lessons on important issues of chess. Your expert advice will help you manage a set of typical situations with greater understanding and confidence.

The themes are: Geometry board, Older pieces, central pawn isolated, central passed pawn, Advantage space, Zugzwang, two bishops, pawns symmetrical structures, static and dynamic characteristics.

Beim focuses both on typical methods of play and thought as the use of the concept of the "resulting play" in the search for possibilities of Zugzwang. The book contains numerous examples of how the greatest players in history have faced in practice these essential issues.

124 exercises are included in total to test the reader's understanding, with extensive and detailed solutions.

Valeri Beim is a grandmaster who lives in Austria. He has won numerous tournaments and plays regularly in the Championships by teams from Austria and Germany. For many years he was the head coach of the chess school in Odessa. He also coached the Olympic team of Israel. This is his third book of chess is.