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Power Chess with Pieces The Ultimate Guide to the Bishop Pair & Strong Knights

Paperback • 2004 • English

Power Chess with Pieces The Ultimate Guide to the Bishop Pair & Strong Knights

By Jan Timman

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

In contrast to the opening or the endgame, the middlegame seems to offer little in the way of concrete starting-points for methodical study. Former world championship candidate Jan Timman deals, on the basis of countless examples encountered in his rich chess career, with themes like ?strong knight against bishop? and 'the dominant bishop pair?. How is one to proceed when one emerges from the opening with a strong knight and one's opponent is stuck with a bad bishop? And is the bishop pair reall...Show more

Historical adventure fiction
Sociology
Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality

Book details

ISBN

9789056911232

Publisher

New in Chess

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

Power Chess with Pieces The Ultimate Guide to the Bishop Pair & Strong Knights

Format

Paperback

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