Build Up Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals - Artur Yusupov

264 pages

Written by German Grandmaster Artur Yusupov. Artur is well-known both as a writer and as a player and should need no introduction. The book is a primer for club players who can play chess, but still need to acquire the building blocks of chess knowledge, based on Soviet training methods which proved so effective in the past. The book has a foreword by World Champion Vishy Anand.

Build up your Chess with Artur Yusupov is 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.

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Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary World Champions 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.