Secrets of Chess Intuition,9781901983524

Secrets of Chess Intuition

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ISBN13: 9781901983524
ISBN10: 1901983528
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-05-01
Publisher(s): Gambit
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Summary

Intuition is central to all chess decision-making, and an understanding of its role is vital to improving one's game. Players who try to calculate everything to a finish are doomed to lose out to those who use their logical and intuitive abilities in harmony with one another. This book, the first devoted to the role of intuition in chess, explains how to allow your intuition to reach its full potential and provides guidance on the types of positions in which one should rely heavily on intuition, and on those where one ought to be more analytical.

Table of Contents

Symbols 4(1)
Foreword 5(1)
Introduction 6(4)
The Intuition of Mikhail Tal
10(12)
Simple Intuitive Decisions
22(7)
Combinative Intuitive Decisions
29(18)
Intuitive Positional Decisions: Introduction
47(2)
Exchange Sacrifices
49(17)
Piece Sacrifices for Two Pawns
66(4)
Queen Sacrifices
70(4)
Pawn Sacrifices
74(12)
Exchanging as an Intuitive Decision
86(8)
Which Rook?
94(6)
Mysterious Quiet Moves
100(3)
Improving the Worst-Placed Piece
103(5)
Analysis, Intuition and Mistakes in Judgement
108(11)
Intuition and Risk
119(5)
Intuition in the Endgame
124(10)
Psychological Factors
134(15)
Intuition in the Opening
149(6)
Suetin on intuition
155(12)
Test Your Intuition
167(4)
Solutions 171(3)
Index of Players 174(2)
Index of Openings 176

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