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The Power Chess Program

Book 2

Nigel Davies

B.T. Batsford Ltd, London .

First published in 1999

Contents

ISBN 0 7134 8420 9

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data.

A catalogue record for this book is

available from the British Library.

Introduction

The Art of Attack

reprduced, by any means, without prior permission

of the publisher.

2 T he Initiative

3 The At of Defence

4 Winning 'Won P o s i t io n s '

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A member of the Ch'saJis Group pic

5 Endgame Themes

6 Endgame Battles

7 Masters of Attack

103

8 The Strategists

120

9 The Technicians

136

10 The Tacticilns

152

11 The Opening

167

12 The Elements of Mastey

183

Ke y Moyes Solutions

201

A n al ys i s Positions Solutions

215

A BATSFORD CHESS BOOK

Symbols

Introduction

+ check

# mate

x captures

!! a brilliant move

a good move

'? an interesting move

?! a dubious move

? a bad move

?? a blunder

1-0 White wins

0- 1 Black wins

'1-'1 draw

Candidates tounament

Welcome to year two of the

Power Chess Program which can be

studied either together with or inde

pendently from Book I.

What is it that makes a strong

chess player? Is it a knowledge of

opening theory Cas many people

seem to believe) or perhaps being

able to calculate more moves ahead

than the opponent? A quick eye per

haps, ierce will to win or just

patience?

Through my work as a chess

trainer I have come across all sorts

of theories as to what it is that

makes someone good at chess, not

all of them very sound. As a result it

is quite diicult for an amateur

player with a limited amount of time

to know exactly how to improve.

With these thoughts in mind I set

about developing a training program

which would target the two main

areas in which stronger players dis

tinguish themselves. The irst is

their ability to see ahead clearly and

deeply and be able to make disci

plined calculations. The second is in

recognising a large number of sra

tegic pattens and being able to

apply this to similar positions with

good judgement and creativity.

The Power Chess Program is a

two year course in which month by

month I present diffe rent strategic

themes and issues and then back this

up with thematic test positions to

get the reader actively involved. It is

only through jhis active involve

ment that the strategic ideas really

hit home, simply reading about

them is not enough!

I have arranged the chapters in

terms of 'weeks' and 'months' with

the aim of encouraging a regular

weekly study session of about 3-5

hours. For each week's lesson you

should irstly read through the ootes

and then set about the test positions.

These positions are divided into

two types. The 'key move' positions

CM1311: to KM24/4 are fa irly

lightweight and you might allow

yourself around 10 minutes each to

ind the next move. The analysis

positions CAl3/I: to A24/4) are

much more diicult and I suggest

you spend around 30 minutes on

these. r recommend that you do not

take more than the allotted time so

as to avoid rustration and en..our

age quick, disciplined decisions. I

also suggest that you try not to

move the pieces as this will help de

velop visualisation skills.

You should also note that these

positions are not necessarily tactical

forced wins. Sometimes it is a good

positional move that is required,

sometimes you may be called on to

ind the best chance in a losing posi

tion. This confoms much more to

the reality of chess than the standard

two-movers we see all the time in

Candidates match

Championship

WCh

World championship

Cht

Team championship

Team tounament

Olympiad

Interzonal tounament

Zonal tounament

corr

Corresponden.e game

Match

newspapers. These lack any kind of

challenge because you know there is

something there!

I will not ty to kid you that this

course is an easy option and that

merely opening this book will im

prove your chess. Several of my stu

dents have fahen by the wayside

ater a few months.

What I can say is that eveyone .

who has persevered and worked

systematically through it has exper

ienced an upswing in their results,

sometimes a quite dramatic

improvement.

The Power Chess Program can

also be studied in conjuntion with a

personal tuition package. For more

details you can contact me at my

web site (www.checkewise.co.uk).

It remains for me to wish you well

with the Power-Chess Program and

leave you with the words of John F.

Kennedy:

"There are costs and risks to a

program of action, but they are far

less than the long-range risks and

costs of comfortable inaction."

1 The Art of Attack

In Book 1, month one, we looked

at various aspects of king safety and

attack. This month we will look in

more detail at the art of attack using

the games of some of its greatest

exponents.

In week one we will see the attack

on the king in the most basic form

in which the hapless monarch is

being pursued by a number of the

opponent's pieces. In week two we

will see examples of direct attacks

upon a king's fortress, in week three

we see how a preliminay sotening

up process can be efective.

Last but not least I will give a

rather more philosophical view of

the attack by comparing chess strat

egy with the views on warfare ex

pounded by the Chinese general Sun

Tzu in his book The Art a/War.

The greatest genius of the attack

was, in my opinion, Alexander

Alekhine who amazed his contem

poraries with his ability to generate

attacking positions. He seemed to

have a unique ability to bring about

attacking positions against the

strongest of opposition and rom all

kinds of positions. For this reason I

have featured Alekhine's games this

month more than those of any other

player.

Month l3Week I:

The King Hunt

GM Nigel Davies,

Manchester, June 1999.

There is nothing more dramatic or

easily comprehensible in chess than

the sight of a king running across

the board whilst trying to evade

blows by the opposing pieces. This

is romantic chess in its purest form

though in today's scientific era it is

rather more diicult to bring about

such scenarios than it was in the

past.

The reason is that players are

much more careful about the safety

of their king and would prefer to

make almost any concession rather

than sufer the indignity of having

their king hunted don. All the

same thIS does sometimes happen ...

The. irst game this week sees at

tack ar.d defence in balance with

White having enough for a draw by

perpetual check but not more than

this. In the second game there is the

ather more common scenario of the

hunted king getting cut down in the

cross-ire.

O'Kelly - Penrose

Varna Olympiad 1962

1 4 c5 2 b3 Dc6 3 d4 cxd4 4

Dx14 e6 5 b3 tc7 6 Le2 a6 7

8 Th e Art o f Attack

The Art o f Attack 9

0-0 Jr6 8 �e3 tb4 9 Jxc6 bxc6

10 td3 d5 II exd5 cxd5 12 td4

�e7 13 [el 0-0

With White's pieces pointing

menacingly towards the kingside

this could be descibed as 'brave'.

14 f3 �b7 15 le3 [re8 16

.ae1 [ad8 17Wh3 Je4!

If 17 ... g6 there is 18 .O Je4 19

'xh7+ Wxh7 20 lh3+ �g8 21

.h8#.

with a winning attack. The best ty

was 15 ... 0-0-01 but then White has

a very dangerous attack ater 16

Jb5 fb8 17 Oe4. If Black con·

tinues with 17 ... Oxe4 18 'xe4 a6

there follows 19 �f4 e5 20 [xd7

lxd7 21 �xe5 Was 22 Oc7 lxc7

23 '5+ ttb8 (Or 23 ... nd7 24

[d 1 +-) 24 Wx7 or if 18 ... Of6

there is 19 ' e3 a6 20 Oa 7+ Wc 7 21

.ta5+ b6 22 lhd8+-.

16Jxe6!

20 fxh7+!

Not only spectacular but at this

stage rather necessary. 20 Jg5 al

lows Black to take the initiative with

20 ... h6 21 [h3 'f4 etc.

This sacriice is reminiscent of a

famous game between Edward

Lasker and Sir George Thomas

played in London in 1910 which

went 1 d4 f5 2 Jc3 Jf6 3 JO e6 4

�g5 �e7 5 �xf6 txf6 6 e4 xe4 7

Oxe4 b6 8 �d3 ib7 9 le5 00 10

fh5 ke7 11 Wxh7+! >xh7 12

Jxf6+ >h6 13 Jeg4+ �g5 14 h4+

>f4 15 g3+ >O 16 te2+ >g2 17

[h2+ >g 1 18 >d2# In the present

case it only leads to a draw.

20 ... Wxh7!

Black has to sail into the eye of

the storm. 'J ... Wf8 21 Jg3 txe3

22 [xe3 We7 23 ixg7 gives White

a ferocious attack.

21 Of6+ >h6 22 lh3+ �gS 23

lh7+ �g4

And not 23 ... >f4? because of 24

.h4#.

24 �e2+ ?f4 25 td3

White must repeat moves as 25

[h4+? is met by 25 ... tte5 and 25

�h5? by 25 ... �xl + 26 �xl

"xc2+ 27 �gl 'xh7!.

25 ... >g4 26 te2+ >f4 27 td3

27 ... >g4

Black has little choice but to re

peat moves, 27 ... .xl+ 28 Wxl

'c5+ 29 Wf1 ie7 30 [O+ >g4

gives White the chance to search for

a win. White too has to accede to

the draw as 28 Wf1 is met by 28 ...

txl! 29 >xl "f4+.

l:ll

18 fh5!

There are several tempting possi

bilities, none of which brings home

the bacon. 18 �xg7 fails after 18 ...

>xg7 19 .g3+ �h8 20 tth6 [g8,

18 Jxe4 allows 18 ... dxe4 19

txe4 �xe4 20 [xe4 'xc2 and 18

o is met by 1 S ... '5! 19 txe4 dxe4.

18 ... tf6!

The only d:f:Il;:. l: plausible

18 ... g6 loses to 19 fxh7+ �7

20 .h3+ �g8 21 [h8# and 18 ... f5

is met by 19 [h3 h6 20 �xg7 Jg5

21 fg6.

19Jxe4

Both sides are finding their best

moves. Ater 19 [x4 Black can de

fend himself with 19

Evans - Berger

Amsterdam Izt 1964

.. dxe4 20

I e4 c6 2 d4 d5 3 O3 dxe4 4

lxe4 �f5 5 Og3 �g6 6 l3ld7

7 h4 h6 8 h5 .h7 9 �d 3 txd3 10

Wxd3 We7 11 .d2 lgf6 12 0-0-0

e6 13 >bl e5 14 c4 cxd4?!

This proves to be very dangerous

for Black with his king still hanging

around in the middle of the board. It

would be wiser to castle queens ide

at this point.

ISlxd4 a6

This allows White a winning

sacriicial breakthrough but the

position is already very diicult for

Black. He had originally intended

15 ... Je5 but then White can play

16 fe2 lxc4 17 Jxe6! Jxd2+ 18

lxd2 xe6 19 'xe6+ ie7 (Or 19 ...

te7 20 Of5 '8 2 1 [C1+-) 20 'c4

16 ..• fxe6 17'g6+ Wd8 18 nhel

"c8

White's attack keeps coming in all

lines. If 18 . .. e5 there is 19 i.c3

ttc8 20 f4! and 1 8 ... 'xc4 is met

by 19 .c3.

19 .xe6 b6 20 WfS!

Quiet but deadly. The threat is 21

tf4.

20 ..• �b7 21�f4 fc5

Black no longer has any prospect

of defence. Ater 21 ... Vc8 there is

22 Je4 "a7 (Or 22 ... Jxe4 23

fxe4+ ;a7 24 [c6! etc) 23 Jxf6

Jxf6 241xf6 gxf6 251d7+.

22 [xf6 1:0

Upon 22 ... Oxf6 there follows 23

nd7+ Wc6 24 .c7# .

i.xf6 gxf6 21 ixe4 f5.

19 ... �xd4

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