Vladimir Kramnik. School of modern chess. Ionov V.E., Kalinichenko N.M.

You are in front of you a textbook on modern chess. In form, this is a collection of parties in the 14th world champion, but, unlike standard collections, their instructiveness was the main criterion when choosing parties. Studying them, the reader will constantly face useful lessons presented by the chief expert of our time in the field of strategy, dynamics and debut theory by Vladimir Kramnik.

In this publication, an attempt to penetrate the method of thinking of the grandmaster, for which a lot of explanations are given Kramnik himself, made by him at press conferences immediately after parties, in Internet transmission and on the pages of magazines. In the process of analyzing parties, the reader will constantly ask questions to include it in active work on the analysis of what is happening on the board.

The book studies a large number of new ideas that can be used as “recognition templates”, or, How fashionable to say today, Patterns. The classical strategy is closely intertwined with a fashionable dynamic game. This is a modern approach to the study of chess, it is designed to quickly strengthen the reader’s game, bring him tournament points. There is a chapter for training combination vision.

The authors hope that the textbook turned out to be at the same time fascinating and useful.