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Boost Your Chess 3: Mastery
Yusupov's Chess School

Boost Your Chess 3: Mastery

Covers advanced opening repertoire chapters (Reti, English, King's Indian, Grünfeld) together with further strategic and calculation material.

Curriculum

Chapters 1–12

  • Attacking the king in the centre
  • Realizing an advantage
  • Counterplay
  • Knight endings
  • The English Opening
  • Hanging pawns on c3-d4
  • Counter-attack
  • Rook against pawn
  • The technique of calculating variations
  • The Reti Opening
  • The passed pawn in the middlegame
  • Prophylactic thinking

Chapters 13–24

  • Bishop against knight
  • Defence
  • Candidate moves
  • Combinational vision
  • The King's Indian Defence
  • Queenside pawn majority
  • Central pawn majority
  • Pawn storms
  • The initiative
  • The Grünfeld Defence
  • The elimination method
  • Knight against bishop