Chess Middlegames Essential Knowledge

Yuri Averbakh was one of the leading Soviet grandmasters for two decades, competing in the USSR Championship 15 times between 1949 and 1969. He finished in an extremely respectable 10th place in the famous Zurich Candidates' tournament of 1953. His previous books for Cadogan include Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge and Chess Middlegames: Essential Knowledge and the monumental five-volume series Comprehensive Chess Endings.

Number of Pages: 128 Publishing year: 1996 Medium: Paperback ISBN:�1857441257 Publisher: Everyman Chess

Topics covered include coordinating the pieces, attack and defence, combinations and sacrifices, and much more. Yuri Averbakh is a former Soviet champion and world championship candidate. He is also the author of the five-volume treatise 'Comprehensive Chess Endings' (also translated by Ken Neat) and the perennially popular 'Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge.

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