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How to Play Chess:
Lessons from an
International Master
Course Guidebook
Jeremy Silman
International Master
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Jeremy Silman
International Master
J
eremy Silman is an International Master and
a world-class chess teacher, writer, and player
who has won the U.S. Open (1981), the National
Open (1990), and the American Open (1992).
Considered by many to be the game’s preeminent
instructive writer, Mr. Silman is the author or coauthor of 39 books, including
How to Reassess Your Chess: Chess Mastery through Chess Imbalances
(winner of the Guardian Chess Book of the Year award),
Silman’s Complete
Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master
(winner of the ChessCafe.com
Book of the Year award), and
Pal Benko: My Life, Games and Compositions
(the only chess book to have won all three of the major chess book awards).
He also has served as a chess consultant for television shows (Monk,
Malcolm
in the Middle, Criminal Minds,
and HBO’s
Arliss)
and movies (Harry
Potter
and the Sorcerer’s Stone
and
).
Other writings include content for websites; a screenplay that was optioned
by LMK Productions; a novel entitled
Autobiography of a Goat;
and
hundreds of articles for a variety of chess magazines, including
Chess Life,
the Dutch magazine
New in Chess,
the
British Chess Magazine, Chess Chow,
and many more.
Mr. Silman also has lectured and given simultaneous exhibitions in
Tokyo, Japan. His chess career has taken him to all of western and eastern
Europe, Brazil, Argentina, India, China, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam,
New Zealand, and all over the United States (including Alaska), Canada,
and Mexico.
Mr. Silman’s chess website (www.jeremysilman.com) offers reviews that
and bring much-needed guidance to the avalanche of new books coming out
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography ............................................................................i
Course Scope .....................................................................................1
How the Pieces Move .........................................................................4
Algebraic Notation ............................................................................12
LESSON GUIDES
LESSON 1
The World of Chess ..........................................................................15
LESSON 2
Secrets of the Pawns and Knights....................................................28
LESSON 3
Castling, Checkmate, Chess Engines, Draws ..................................41
LESSON 4
Must-Know Tactical Patterns in Chess .............................................53
LESSON 5
Chess Combinations and Kings in Check ........................................66
LESSON 6
Checkmate! Back-Rank, Smothered, and More ...............................80
LESSON 7
Checkmate against a Castled King ..................................................92
LESSON 8
Legendary Attacking Greats of Chess ............................................ 111
LESSON 9
A Cascade of Short, Brutal Chess Games! ....................................132
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Table of Contents
LESSON 10
Chess Heroes of the Romantic Age ...............................................152
LESSON 11
Open Files and the Positional Rook ...............................................173
LESSON 12
Pawns: The Positional Soul of Chess.............................................188
LESSON 13
Positional Weaknesses and Targets in Chess ................................201
LESSON 14
Closed and Open Positions on the Chessboard.............................214
LESSON 15
Chess Statics vs. Dynamics: An Eternal Battle ..............................229
LESSON 16
Using Chessboard Imbalances to Create Plans .............................240
LESSON 17
Legendary Teachers Who Transformed Chess ..............................255
LESSON 18
Chess Endgames and the King’s Magical Powers .........................266
LESSON 19
Kings and Pawns in Next-Level Endgames....................................279
LESSON 20
Triangulation and Two Critical Rook Endgames .............................299
LESSON 21
Chess Openings: The Right and Wrong Way .................................316
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