Strategy & Tactics in Chess

by Max Euwe

This is a book on basic chess strategy written by Dr. Max Euwe while he was World Chess Champion. Unlike so many subsequent books by Euwe, there is no co-author to this book. Euwe himself wrote this one. The topics covered I. Strategy and Tactics. II. General principles. - The greatest possible field of action for the pieces. - As much choice as possible of intervening III. Special principles. - Taking the initiative where one is strongest. - Directing the attack in general on fixed pawns. IV. Combinations in General. - Mating combinations. - Open-field combinations. V. Mating combinations. - Direct mate combinations. - Break-up combinations. - Penetrative combinations. - Lateral combinations. VI. Open-field combinations. - Combinations for gain in material. - Focal-point combinations. - Pinning combinations. - Unmasking combinations. - Overload combinations. - Desperado combinations. - Cumulative combinations. VII. Compound combinations. VIII. End-game combinations. - Forcing combinations. - Advancing combinations. - Promotion combinations. Dr. Max Euwe was world chess champion from 1935 to 1937. He played all of the great players from Lasker to Fischer in tournaments and studied all of their games in great detail. He knew more about them and their games than anybody else.

Genres: Chess

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1951

Reviews

[Cormac Zoso · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good tactics and strategy book. Not for the beginner but any club player would do themselves a favor by reviewing this book every other year or so along with some of the other 'required reading' of the chess classics.

Dr. Euwe was a psychologist and GM. If you can find an inexpensive copy of his classic book probing into the haunted-house of bobby fischer's head, that's a read that will stay with you for a long time. Euwe has plenty to say inside and outside the player's head.