Critical Moments in Chess Gaprindashvili P 2010.pdf

CRITICAL
MOMENTS
IN CHESS
Paala Gaprindashvili
BATSFORD CHESS
Critical Motnents in Chess
Paata Gaprindashvili
BATSFORD
First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 by
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Text copyright © Paata Gaprindashvili 2010
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ISBN 9781906388652
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Contents
From the Author 5
1 Critical moments 7
2 Critical moments: struggle and capture of the initiative 19
3 Critical moments: development of the initiative,
creation of an attack 37
4 Critical moments: obtaining and retaining the advantage;
creation of counterplay; taking over the initiative
from the opponent, etc. 53
5 Critical moments: delivering the decisive blow 66
6 Exercises 79
Solutions to Exercises 99
Index of Players 267
From the Author
Dear Reader,
Before you is a book dedicated to a very important problem, but
one that has hardly been looked at in chess literature - the problem
of critical moments in the game.
The book consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 gives readers an idea
of critical moments, the reasons for their occurrence, and acquaints
them with their types. In the following Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5
detailed analysis is given of critical moments, as well as a list of
method