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Build up your Chess with Artur Yusupov: The Fundamentals Volume I | 
 enlarge | Author: Artur Yusupov
Publisher: Quality Chess UK LLP
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 98060
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 276
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1906552010
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9781906552015
ASIN: 1906552010
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Product Description
A book for chess players who want to build their skills on solid foundations. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles. Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary Karpov and Kasparov. He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship. In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from current World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.
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Nice workbook August 20, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I really like this book. It is not so much an instructional book as a graded workbook. I would say it is half way between an instructional work and a test book. You are introduced to some concept, shown some examples, and then offered exercises to do (with a rudimentary scoring system). No effort is really made to teach you though - it's as if this were designed as material for coaches which I believe it is.
Jeremy Silman was disappointed that it was so dry (he's right) but this doesn't bother me at all. There are numerous books providing good instructive material on this or that topic but precious few that offer any kind of substantial course or progressive introduction of material (I guess this is what you pay a trainer for). This book (volume 1) looks like it could be the start of one and that would be a good thing. Actually Silman's own endgame book is very deliberately written to offer a progression of material and it is great (less dry too, for those who care).
The material is not difficult, but not beginner stuff (the Introduction suggests under 1500 ELO). The exercises at the end vary in difficulty so some are trivial and others require more effort.
My purpose in buying this book was to discover fundamental weaknesses that I had skipped over so I could fill in the blanks (the Introduction states that it will help "close any possible gaps in his chess knowledge"). It is proving useful for exactly that purpose. In essence I am paying for the author's proven skill in selection of material and recognizing what is relevant for a particular playing level. This is money well spent.
Five stars if it had just a little more instructive prose.
A good entry in the intermediate field of books August 5, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I saw this book at a friend's house recently. I checked the table of contents and went through a couple sections.
This is a very nice look at tactical play and developing pattern recognition. Several examples of a theme are given, followed by quiz positions. Yusupov also recommends a method for working through the variations given. This is not just a book of tactical puzzles, but a guide toward improving a player's eye for combinations.
Yusupov, along with his trainer Dvoretsky, has written some of the best advanced chess manuals. Here he writes for the beginning to intermediate level chess player who is striving to improve.
Highly recommended!
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