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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-Vision-
Checkmate/dp/148199512X
Thank you!
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Contents
Introduction 4
Wilhelm Steinitz
Emanuel Lasker
José Raúl Capablanca
Alexander Alekhine 5
Max Euwe
Mikhail Botvinnik
Vasily Smyslov
Mikhail Tal 13
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 9
Euwe: Games 76-92
Botvinnik: Games 93-105
Smyslov: Games 106-129
Tal: Games 130-182 13
Petrosian: Games 183-198
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Spassky: Games 199-227
Fischer: Games 228-251
Karpov: Games 252-289
Kasparov: Games 290 – 311
Kramnik: Games 312-335
Anand: Games 336-379
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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 you’re 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!
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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 … Bh4
35 Rh2 Qg2+!
36 Rxg2 ?
Game 53: Alekhine – Leonhardt, 1910
61 … Qh5+
62 Kg3 Rg5+
63 Kf4 ?
Game 55: Alekhine – Tenner, 1911
26 Rb4 Qd8?
27 Qxh7+ Kxh7
28 ?
13 Bxc5+ Kf6
14 0-0+ Kxe5
15 ?
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Game 56: Rodzinski – Alekhine, 1913
Game 58: Alekhine – Rubinstein, 1921
13 … Qxd3
14 cxd4 Be7
15 Qxa8 ?
Game 57: Marshall – Alekhine, 1914
49 Kf5 Kh4?
50 Rh1+ Kg3
51 ?
Game 59: Alekhine – Bogoljubow, 1922
23 … Rhg8
24 Rb3? Rxg1+
25 Nxg1 ?
50 Ne6+ Kh4?
51 Re1 Rh8
52 ?
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Game 60: Gruenfeld – Alekhine, 1923
Game 62: Alekhine – Steiner, 1926
33 … Rxd1+
34 Qf1 Bd4+
35 Kh1 ?
Game 61: Alekhine – Marshall, 1925
55 Nf6 Bc4?
56 Rxh7+ Kg5
57 ?
Game 63: Alekhine – Yates, 1926
30 e8Q+ Qxe8
31 Bxd5+ Bxd5
32 ?
66 Qh8+ Ke7
67 Re6+ Kd7
68 ?
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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
36 … fxg2#
Game 53: Alekhine – Leonhardt, 1910
63 … Qg4#
Game 55: Alekhine – Tenner, 1911
28 Rh4#
15 Rf5#
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Game 56: Rodzinski – Alekhine, 1913
Game 58: Alekhine – Rubinstein, 1921
15 … Bh4#
Game 57: Marshall – Alekhine, 1914
51 Rh3#
Game 59: Alekhine – Bogoljubow, 1922
25 … Qe1#
52 … Rh1#
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Game 60: Gruenfeld – Alekhine, 1923
Game 62: Alekhine – Steiner, 1926
35 … Rxf1#
Game 61: Alekhine – Marshall, 1925
57 Ne4#
Game 63: Alekhine – Yates, 1926
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+ Kd8
21 Bg5+ Be7
22 Qf7 Nd7
23 Qg8+ Nf8
24 ?
Game 131: Vinokurov – Tal, 1954
18 Rxf6 hxg5
19 Rh6+ Kg8
20 Qh7+ Kf7
21 Qg6+ Kg8
22 Qxg7#
Game 133: Tal – Kliavinsh, 1954
32 … Rxf7
33 Be6 Nf2+
34 Kg1 Nh3+
35 Kh1 Qg1+
36 Rxg1 ?
28 Qh5 f5
29 Qxh6+ Qh7
30 Qxh7+ Kxh7
31 Rf4 cxd4
32 ?
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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
36 … 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-Vision-
Checkmate/dp/148199512X
Thank you!
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