Chess Strategy: Practice and training guide

Leonid Nikolaev

12/2017 · Maurizio Camangi

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Leonid Nikolaev, International Master and first instructor of the "Avangard" chess academy, has authored this booklet with 200 positions, either from the "Classics" of the past and also from modern games, all and only about strategic motifs.

His endeavor wants to fill up a gap: whilst it is very easy to find so many training books about tactics and combinational motifs, when it comes to strategy - a work purely focused on positional motifs - it is quite the opposite.
Herein solutions are not "White (or Black) to move and win", with mate or material advantage, but rather moves to gain a positional advantage.
Intended for titled players (1st Category and Candidate Master) the benefits provided by this approach have been proved on the field throughout the training sessions by the author himself, at the "Avangard" chess academy.

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Maurizio Camangi, software engineer, chess enthusiast, author of “Guida ai server FICS” (in Italian) and Olga Strelnikova, Russian mother-tongue, software engineer and beginner of the Nobil Giuoco, have already translated the original booklet from Russian to Italian with the aim of popularising this work which is focused on testing your own analysis abilities and strategic evaluation, thanks to 200 positions accurately selected by Leonid Nikolaev.

Leonid Nikolaev is the original author of this booklet in Russian and an important representative of the everlasting “soviet” chess school. Leonid set about developing a training program which would target the evaluation of strategic patterns and this booklet is his first work, followed by other interesting publications (in Russian).