Improve Your Practical Play in the Middlegame - Alexey Dreev

Improve Your Practical Play in the Middlegameby Alexey DreevThis book is devoted to typical methods of play in the middlegame. This topic, of course, is not new. Many books have been written on it at different times by authors old and modern. Unfortunately, the content of such books is not always error-free, as people have experienced many times. Therefore the emphasis in my book is on the quality of the examples; all of them have been checked and are deeply analysed.When writing a book, many authors try to make an impression by choosing the most striking games and fragments. The reader may therefore get the impression that a game of chess consists only of beautiful moves, combinations, spectacular sacrifices and non-standard solutions. Of course, it does not. There is a lot of beauty in chess, but usually most games consist of ‘work in progress’. There are lots of examples of such ‘working’ games in this book, but beauty is also present.Of course, the format of the book does not permi