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Chess Evolution 1
Artur Yusupov’s complete course of chess training stretches to nine volumes, guiding the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles. The course is structured in three series with three levels. The Fundamentals level is the easiest one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players. The various topics – Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, Endgames, Calculating Variations, and Openings – are spread evenly across the nine volumes, giving readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books. This book is the third volume at the Fundamentals level.
264 pages, Paperback
First published October 15, 2011
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August 15, 2025
Chess Evolution 1: The Fundamentals, Artur Yusupov, 2011, 262 pages, Dewey 794.1, ISBN 9781906552459
Warns us not to use a computer. Which makes the book easier to use. Gives us a couple positions per page, with the instruction to not look at the text until we've figured out the best sequence of moves, for each of the opponent's responses. Since these are from grandmaster games, selected for the surprising nature of the combinations, good luck with that, but the book, giving us many examples in each group, familiarizes us with themes like sacrificing to activate a bishop; realizing a material advantage; determining if a pawn ending can be won or drawn; queen vs. rook endgames.
The 9-book series, in order:
Fundamentals (orange)
Beyond the Basics (blue)
Mastery (green)
Within each level, the sublevels are:
Build Up (circle)
Boost (square)
Evolution (triangle)
Warns us not to use a computer. Which makes the book easier to use. Gives us a couple positions per page, with the instruction to not look at the text until we've figured out the best sequence of moves, for each of the opponent's responses. Since these are from grandmaster games, selected for the surprising nature of the combinations, good luck with that, but the book, giving us many examples in each group, familiarizes us with themes like sacrificing to activate a bishop; realizing a material advantage; determining if a pawn ending can be won or drawn; queen vs. rook endgames.
The 9-book series, in order:
Fundamentals (orange)
Beyond the Basics (blue)
Mastery (green)
Within each level, the sublevels are:
Build Up (circle)
Boost (square)
Evolution (triangle)
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