Revealing Modern Grandmaster Secrets Vol. 1 & 2, Nicholas Pert (English)

CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Opening Play
• Looking for offbeat variations: Bortnyk vs Kosteniuk
• Playing unconventional moves against suspicious lines: Ponomariov vs Kollars
• A historical game: Carlsen vs Niemann
• Put your opponent to the test: Pranesh vs Xu
• A new idea to attack a vulnerable king in IQP positions: Giri vs Gukesh
• Looking for offbeat variations: Aronian vs Carlsen
• Attacking the castled King
• Open files, Rook lift & exchange good defenders: Hawkins vs Pert
• Keep the pieces on the board: Kramnik vs Anand
• Don't let the King escape: Wei Yi vs Bruzon Batista
• Involve as many pieces in the attack as possible: Pert vs Arkell
• Look for sacrifices to open the King's position: Pert vs Ganguly
• Attacking the King in the centre
• Keep your pieces on the board & keep the initiative Part 1: Short vs Ponomariov
• Keep your pieces on the board & keep the initiative Part 2: Short vs Ponomariov
• Don't let the enemy King get to safety: Carlsen vs Pantsulaia
• Ensure your opponent can't castle: Vallejo Pons vs Esipenko
• Develop your pieces with threats: Pert vs Williams
• Fighting for the Initiative
• Develop your pieces quickly: Mitra vs Pert
• Sacrifice for the initiative: Praggnanandhaa vs Berkes
• Develop your pieces quickly: Pert vs D'Costa
• A powerful exchange sacrifice: Radjabov vs Bortnyk
• Sacrifice for the initiative: Aronian vs Navara
• Attacking when both players have weak Kings
• Don't be slow: Sindarov vs Nihal Sarin
• Save your King at all cost: Firouzja vs Caruana
• Keep the pressure up: Pert vs Crockart
• Exercises
• Caruana - Mitrabha
• Svidler - Van Foreest
• Gelfand - Berkes
• Zypolskis - Price
• Xiong - So
• Buhmann - Shirov
• Nakamura - Niemann
• Grieve - Gormally
• L'Ami - Warmerdam
• Erigaisi - Azarov
• Niemann - Nakamura
• Royal - Koepke
• Abasov - Caruana
• Chow - Pert
• Alekseenko - Grigoryan
• Practice Positions
• Opening play 1
• Opening play 2
• Attacking the castled King 1
• Attacking the castled King 2
• Attacking the King in the centre 1
• Attacking the King in the centre 2
• Fighting for the initiative 1
• Fighting for the initiative 2
• Attacking when both players have weak Kings 1
• Attacking when both players have weak Kings 2
• Introduction
• Winning from a bad position
• Winning from a bad position
• Counter attack: Erigaisi vs Tang
• Creating threats: Ivanchuk vs Jussupow
• King safety: Erigaisi vs Sadwhani
• Counterplay: Duda vs Adams
• Checkmate threats in the endgame
• Brilliant ideas: Lupulescu vs Giri
• Play on both sides: Carlsen vs Rapport
• The power of two rooks: Pert vs Gordon
• Active King endgames
• Endgame fireworks: Anand vs Carlsen
• Instructive Example: Adly vs Dardha
• Bishop and Pawn Endgame: Pähtz vs Muzychuk
• Subtle moves: Keymer vs Abdusattorov
• Brilliant Defence: Short vs Gurevich
• Positional Chess
• Space advantage: Keymer vs Dardha
• Improve your pieces: Jones vs Adams
• How to slowly put pressure on your opponent: Carlsen vs Ghaem Maghami
• A pawn up: Pert vs Rudd
• Defending
• Exchange pieces: Mareco vs Mekhitarian
• How the World's Number 1 defends: Mamedyarov vs Carlsen
• Defend actively: Kramnik vs Praggnanandhaa
• Calculation
• Active pieces: Yuffa vs Svane
• Captures & Checks: Keymer vs Pranav
• Captures & Checks 2: Pert vs Devereaux
• Be alert at all times: Abdusattorov vs Esipenko
• Exercises
• Giri - Rapport
• Dvirnyy - Shirov
• Shankland - Schitco
• Nakamura - Pert
• Pert - Mc Clement
• Nakamura - Aronian
• Cooksey - Pert
• Study by Nicholas Pert
• Wells - Pert
• Pert - Stoyanov
• Short - Beliavsky
• Jakovenko - Amin
• Eggleston - Pert
• Pert - Haslinger
• Practice Positions
• Winning from a bad position
• Checkmate threats in the endgame
• Active King endgames 1
• Active King endgames 2
• Positional Chess 1
• Positional Chess 2
• Defending 1
• Defending 2
• Calculation 1
• Calculation 2

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