Bruce Pandolfini is one of the world’s most sought-after chess teachers and one of the most widely read chess writers working today. His role as analyst for PBS’s coverage of the 1972 match between chess superstars Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky first launched him into the public eye. His coaching of chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin was portrayed in the book and film Searching for Bobby Fischer. He is a regular columnist for Chess Life, the bible of the chess world, and continues to coach young players professionally and consults for CEOs from numerous Fortune 500 companies. Pandolfini also created over 300 hypothetical games as a consultant for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. He lives in New York City.
CONTENTS
Introduction
A Word on Chess Notation
Related Section Index
Advantage
Analysis
Anti-Positional Move
Backward Pawn
Bad Bishop
The Bind
Bishops of Opposite Color
Blockade
Blocked Center
Breakthrough Combination
Calculating Variations: How to Do It in Your Head
Doubled Pawns
Doubled Rooks
Exchanging Pieces
Fianchetto
Fixed Pawns
Good Knight
Isolated Pawn
Isolated d-pawn
Isolated d-pawn: Advancing It
Isolated d-pawn: Drawbacks
Isolated d-pawn: Strength
Isolated Pawn Couple
Knight Corral
Minor Exchange
Minority Attack
Opening a File
Outside Passed Pawn
Oversights
Passed Pawn
Pawn Centers
Pawn Chain
Pawn Majority
Positional Chess
Protected Passed Pawn
Two Bishops
Visualization
Weakness
Additional Concept Glossary
Index
