Attack and Counterattack in Chess [Paperback ed.]
 0060970367, 9780060970369

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Fred Reinfeld was a Master chess player. It was in the city schools and at City College that he began his chess playing. While still in his teens, he became Intercollegiate Champion, and was victorious in the New York State, Manhattan Club, and Marshall Club championship matches, defeating such worthy opponents as Sammy Reshevsky, Reuben Fine, Arnold Denker, and I. A. Horowitz.

Mr. Reinfeld was an editor of Chess Review and

a prolific writer, with more than fifty chess books to

his credit, including: First Book of Chess (co-authored with Al Horowitz), Improving Your Chess, How to Win Chess Games Quickly, 1001 Ways to Checkmate, Complete Book of Chess Openings, Chess Strategy for Offense and Defense, and 1001 Chess Sacrifices and Combinations.

FRED REINFELD

Harper & Row, Publishers New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney

CONTENTS PART I White's Point of View chapter

page

1. 2. 3.

1 11 24

4.

34

5.

41

6.

57

7.

69

How to Control the Center How to Exploit Superior Mobility How to Exploit Black's Premature Opening Up of the Position How to Exploit Black's Premature Counterattack How to Exploit Black's Weakening Pawn Moves Row to Exploit Black's Errors of Judgment How to Exploit Irregular Defenses

PART II Black's Point of View 8. 9. 10.

82 96 113

11. 12.

135 143

How to Seize the Initiative How to Play against Gambits How to Defend against a Powerful Attack How to Seize the Attack How to Exploit Unusual Openings

C H E S S NOTATION As indicated in the following diagram, all the squares on the chessboard are numbered from both sides of the board; White's K R 1 , for example, is Black's K R 8 . Each square is also named for the piece occupying the file. Below the diagram is a list of the chief abbreviations used in chess notation. BLACK

WHITE

King — K Queen — Q Rook — R Bishop — B Knight — N Pawn — P captures — x to — —

check — ch discovered check — double check — dbl en passant — e.p. good move — ! very good move — ! outstanding move — bad move — ?

dis ch ch

! ! ! !