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AAA tactics This is for a study of Alekhine's tactics. Material combos: Geometric motives (forks, x-rays)...1 Structural motives (networks) ...2 Domination motives (spatial crowding) ...3 Pawn promotions...4 Checkmating motives.................5 Drawing motives...6 Odd-ball motives ...................7 I. AAA's last combos; roughly in the reverse order of time: 36 games, 1943-1946 AAA tactics - 1914 1 game, 1914 ABC project Interesting combinations. 9 games, 1909-1965 Alekhine fantasy games It is known that, occasionally, Alekhine just could not resist penning dramatic improvements of some of his games. At other times, unknown jesters atributed to Alekhine nifty games he never played. 3 games, 1907-1915 Black QID 49 games, 1951-2007 Breaking and entering Attacks against typical and a-typical castling setups -- sneaks and breaks into King's homes, palaces, and/or redoubts. 80 games, 1874-2010 Bronstein vs. Prague, 1946 Some people view Bronstein's games in the Prague-Moscow Match, 1946 as the inauguration of modern chess. Bronstein scored +4 -1 =1 in Prague (draw with Opocensky, loss to Katetov), and +6 -0 =0 in Moscow. It was in this match that Bronstein made KID a fierce weapon. Czechs were impressed by Bronstein's play and, when Soviets failed nominate Bronstein for the first Interzonal (Salsjobaden, 1948), Czech used one of their own slots to rectify the omission. 12 games, 1946 Capa's aggressive-king maneuver Capablanca introduced an endgame maneuver where he combined the play of an active rook, spatial advantage, advanced pawn(s), and sometimes a minor piece with aggressive penetration by his king. Characteristics of the maneuver comprise: (i) spatial advantage conferred by advanced, though initially locked, pawns; (ii) active, mainly horizontally acting rook; (iii) king that penetrates along weak complex of squares, headless of initial pawn loses; (iv) pawns shielding the enterprising king from opposing rook attacks from behind; (v) compromised position of the defending king and check-mating threats; and (vi) pawn promotion themes. Such play is rare, but leaves a grand impression; here are celebrated examples. 3 games, 1924-2004 Combinations This collection is for great, clean classical combinations. 2 games, 1973-2006 Endgame paradigms 46 games, 1890-2008 Grand Promotions 16 games, 1895-2007 IQP draws 3 games, 1973-2008 IQP loses 15 games, 1886-2016 IQP wins 33 games, 1900-2010 KID 1 game, 1994 King Castles and Other Architectonic Wonders Interesting defensive/offensive setups around kings 15 games, 1923-2007 Neil McDonnald: The Giants of Strategy I like McDonnald's writings in general. And I have always found the games by Nimzo, Capa, Petrosian, Karpov, or Kramnik to my taste. So this looked like a good book to get. 12 games, 1923-2006 Off-collor Bs 6 games, 1923-1985 Opening Catastrophies 1 game, 1998 Tactical Idioms 12 games, 1901-2005

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