Catalogue
The author has been engaged in chess since primary school. As of 1984 he has held International master title. He has been participant of several international tournaments. From 1990 he has rarely participated on tournaments and coaching has become his main occupation. He recently became FIDE coach. From 1988 till 1999 he worked with juveniles of different ages as a professional coach of CC "Partizan". He is one of the founders of The School of Champions in CC "Rad", which began to work in 1996. His students have won eleven Yugoslav and SCG Cadet Championships. All titles were won in the moment when author of this book was working with students individually. From numerous groups of students it is good to mention GM Nikola Sedlak, GM Milos Perunovic and GM Bojan Vuckovic, who are at the moment Serbian most perspective chess players. Slobodan Mirkovic systemized about five thousand matches from World top chess players practice, and he made ledger which represent base in working with young chess players. He is the author of chess combinations classification, which is in the informative System of "Chess Informant".
List of Content
003 Introduction
005 Acknowledgments
PART ONE
(Pawn's endings)
009 How to do endings
010 No pain no gain
012 Unpleasant experience
013 Square rule
019 Opposition
021 Triangle maneuver
024 Zugzwang
026 Pawn's brake through
029 Combinations for a draw
031 Opposition of "knight's jump"
032 Passed pawn
034 United passed pawns
036 The rule of sixth (third) row
038 Deficiency in pawn's structure
043 Transition in pawn's ending
046 Wrong evaluation
047 Transition in other endings
PART TWO
(Miraculous world of combinations)
055 Miraculous world of combinations
056 How to progress in tactics
057 Historical survey
061 Definition of combination
063 Mate combinations
Combinations for achieving:
064 - a draw
069 - material advantage
070 - certain positional mark
072 Classification of combination
Combination with sacrifice:
073 - pawn
083 - knight
097 - bishop
109 - rook
125 - queen
PART THREE
(Strategic motives)
139 Strategie motives
140 King's evacuation
144 King in the center
148 Decastling of the king
151 Attack over h-file
154 Compensation for the queen
157 Weak basic row
160 Classical bishop's sacrifice
163 Dominant knight
166 Knight in isolation
171 Queen in isolation
174 Index of names
177 Contents | 
