The Search for Chess Mastery

- Chess Vision: Checkmate Edition

Stephen Ward

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This is a sample, I hope you enjoy it. The full version has nearly 400 games all with checkmating wins by the World Champions from Steinitz to Anand and vary in difficulty from seeing one move ahead to fifteen! You can get the full version on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle versions.

Just follow these links: Kindle: Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B14OEAQ Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00B14OEAQ Paperback: US: https://www.createspace.com/4134395 UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Search-Chess-Mastery-VisionCheckmate/dp/148199512X Thank you!

Contents Introduction Wilhelm Steinitz Emanuel Lasker Jos Ral Capablanca Alexander Alekhine Max Euwe Mikhail Botvinnik Vasily Smyslov Mikhail Tal Tigran Petrosian Boris Spassky Robert J. Bobby Fischer Anatoly Karpov Garry Kasparov Vladimir Kramnik Viswanathan Vishy Anand SOLUTIONS Steinitz: Games 1 -9 Lasker: Games 10-17 Capablanca: Games 18-51 Alekhine- Games 52-75 Euwe: Games 76-92 Botvinnik: Games 93-105 Smyslov: Games 106-129 Tal: Games 130-182 Petrosian: Games 183-198 13 9 13 5 4

Spassky: Games 199-227 Fischer: Games 228-251 Karpov: Games 252-289 Kasparov: Games 290 311 Kramnik: Games 312-335 Anand: Games 336-379

Introduction
Welcome to Chess Vision: Checkmate Edition, the training book that exercises and will improve your ability to look ahead in chess, picturing the board position as it will be in a few moves time. The idea of each chapter is to start from the pictured position and play through the moves given in your head. In the resulting position there will be a checkmate in 1 to find. This tests the accuracy of your chess vision. Simply performing these exercises will work the muscle required and you will find looking ahead easier and quicker in your own games. The exercises have the added bonus of all being taken from real games, so the positions and checkmating patterns will help you find similar attacks, and are all played by the World Champions starting with Wilhelm Steinitz and continuing to Vishy Anand, with games spanning nearly 150 years! The checkmates themselves include some very common mating patterns and some rare, beautiful examples of piece co-ordination. You might also spot certain trends in how some of the World Champions bring about their checkmating attacks. Each chapter brings with it a new World Champion and asks you to follow an extra move before finding the checkmate. The book starts off easy enough but soon gets challenging and the final few chapters will test the very best! Remember, if youre serious about improving, you must keep trying when it gets difficult. Doing exercises that you are comfortable with might keep you sharp but you have to push beyond your current limits to improve. Have fun finding the checkmates!

Alexander Alekhine

I do not play chess - I fight at chess. Therefore I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position

World Champion #

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Moves then Checkmate!
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Game 52: Viakhirev Alekhine, 1907

Game 54: John Alekhine, 1910

34 35 Rh2 36 Rxg2

Bh4 Qg2+! ?

61 62 Kg3 63 Kf4

Qh5+ Rg5+ ?

Game 53: Alekhine Leonhardt, 1910

Game 55: Alekhine Tenner, 1911

26 Rb4 27 Qxh7+ 28 ?

Qd8? Kxh7

13 Bxc5+ 14 0-0+ 15 ?

Kf6 Kxe5

Game 56: Rodzinski Alekhine, 1913

Game 58: Alekhine Rubinstein, 1921

13 14 cxd4 15 Qxa8

Qxd3 Be7 ?

49 Kf5 50 Rh1+ 51 ?

Kh4? Kg3

Game 57: Marshall Alekhine, 1914

Game 59: Alekhine Bogoljubow, 1922

23 24 Rb3? 25 Nxg1

Rhg8 Rxg1+ ?

50 Ne6+ 51 Re1 52 ?

Kh4? Rh8

Game 60: Gruenfeld Alekhine, 1923

Game 62: Alekhine Steiner, 1926

33 34 Qf1 35 Kh1

Rxd1+ Bd4+ ?

55 Nf6 56 Rxh7+ 57 ?

Bc4? Kg5

Game 61: Alekhine Marshall, 1925

Game 63: Alekhine Yates, 1926

30 e8Q+ 31 Bxd5+ 32 ?

Qxe8 Bxd5

66 Qh8+ 67 Re6+ 68 ?

Ke7 Kd7

Alekhine- Solutions 52-75

Through chess I developed my character. Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and shortcomings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

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Game 52: Viakhirev Alekhine, 1907

Game 54: John Alekhine, 1910

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fxg2#

63

Qg4#

Game 53: Alekhine Leonhardt, 1910

Game 55: Alekhine Tenner, 1911

28 Rh4#

15 Rf5#

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Game 56: Rodzinski Alekhine, 1913

Game 58: Alekhine Rubinstein, 1921

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Bh4#

51 Rh3# Game 59: Alekhine Bogoljubow, 1922

Game 57: Marshall Alekhine, 1914

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Qe1#

52

Rh1#

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Game 60: Gruenfeld Alekhine, 1923

Game 62: Alekhine Steiner, 1926

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Rxf1#

57 Ne4# Game 63: Alekhine Yates, 1926

Game 61: Alekhine Marshall, 1925

32 Rxe8#

68 Qxe8#

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Mikhail Tal

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively, simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

World Champion #

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Moves then Checkmate!
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Game 130 Tal Lozov, 1952

Game 132: Tal Semenikhin, 1954

20 Qg6+ 21 Bg5+ 22 Qf7 23 Qg8+ 24 ?

Kd8 Be7 Nd7 Nf8

18 Rxf6 19 Rh6+ 20 Qh7+ 21 Qg6+ 22 Qxg7#

hxg5 Kg8 Kf7 Kg8

Game 131: Vinokurov Tal, 1954

Game 133: Tal Kliavinsh, 1954

32 33 Be6 34 Kg1 35 Kh1 36 Rxg1

Rxf7 Nf2+ Nh3+ Qg1+ ? 15

28 Qh5 29 Qxh6+ 30 Qxh7+ 31 Rf4 32 ?

f5 Qh7 Kxh7 cxd4

Tal : Solutions 130-182

As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger.

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Game 130: Tal Lozov, 1952

Game 132: Tal Semenikhin, 1954

24 Qf8# Game 131: Vinokurov Tal, 1954

22 Qxg7# Game 133: Tal Kliavinsh, 1954

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Nf2#

32 Rh4#

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This is a sample, I hope you enjoy it. The full version has nearly 400 games all with checkmating wins by the World Champions from Steinitz to Anand and vary in difficulty from seeing one move ahead to fifteen! You can get the full version on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle versions.

Just follow these links: Kindle: Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B14OEAQ Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00B14OEAQ Paperback: US: https://www.createspace.com/4134395 UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Search-Chess-Mastery-VisionCheckmate/dp/148199512X Thank you!

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