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The Most Valuable
Skills in Chess
Maurice Ashley
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First published in the UK by Gambit Publications Ltd 2009
Copyright © Maurice Ashley 2009
The right of Maurice Ashley to be identiied as the author of this work has been asseted in
accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that itshll not, byway ofrade
or othewise, e lent, re-sold, rd out or othewise crculated in any fom of binding or
cover other han that in which it is published nd without a siilr condition including this
condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
ISBN-13: 978-1 -904600-87-9
ISBN-10: 1-904600-87-5
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ypeset by John Nunn
Cover image by Wo lf Morow
Printed in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press Group, Trowbridge, Wilts.
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Chess Director: Dr John Nunn GM
Editorial Director: Graham Burgess FM
Geman Editor: Petra Nunn M
We bmaster: Dr Helen Milligan WFM
Contents
Symbols
5
Introduction
6
Part 1: The Basic Skills
1 The Hunters
7
Long-Range Pieces
7
The Queen
7
The Rook
10
The Bishop
14
Short-Range Pieces
16
The Knight
16
The King
22
The Pawn
26
Exercises
29
2 Crowd Control
31
Liberty or Death
31
A Tale of Two Positions
36
Exercises
38
3 Float Like a Butterly
40
The Landmine Exercise
41
Give-Away Chess
47
Exercises
48
4 Dollars and Sense
50
Up or Down
50
Table of Values
51
Cinderella
53
The Oicers
57
Exercises
60
4
THE MOST VALUABLE SKILS IN CHESS
S Wall Street
Fair Trades
Bad Trades
Proper Sequencing
Exercises
62
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71
6 Homeland Security
The TRIP Method of Defence
Take
Run
Interpose
Protect
Exercises
73
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79
91
7 Regicide
The Bear Hug
Quad Mates
Back-Rank Mate
Exercises
92
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101
Part 2: The Fabulous Five: The Skills in Action
Paul Morphy - Duke of Brunswick I Count Isouard, Pris 1858 104
Wilhelm Steinitz- Curt von Bardeleben, Hastings 1895
112
Mikhail Botvinnik - Milan Vidmar, Nottingham 1936
121
Donald Byne- Robert Fischer, New York 1956
126
Bent Larsen- Boris Spassky, Belgrade 1970
133
Solutions to Exercises
138
Glossary
154
Dedication
157
Acknowledgements
157
Index of Games
158

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