Winning Chess Explained - 2nd hand

Zenon Franco has regularly annotated top-level games for more than a quarter of a century. He has drawn upon this vast experience to present 50 hugely instructive games illustrating a wide variety of chess ideas.
Key themes are illustrated by several games, so that we gain a well-rounded appreciation of the relevant ideas, and develop foresight that will enable us to make the right decisions at the board by anticipating problems before they arise.
Topics include: Pawn Sacrifice, Exchange Sacrifice, The Art of Manoeuvring, The Second Weakness, Permanent vs. Temporary Advantages, Regrouping, `Strange` Exchanges, Denying the Opponent Squares, and The Central Breakthrough.

Zenon Franco is a grandmaster from Paraguay who now lives in Spain. He is an experienced chess trainer, his most notable pupil being Paco Vallejo, now one of the world`s top grandmasters, whom he taught from 1995 to 1999.

• Casa editrice Gambit
• Codice 5610us
• Anno 2006
• Pagine p. 192