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Sfc-5-Secrets-Of-Creative-Thinking-Olms-2009.Pdf Dvoretsky I Yusupov • Secrets of Creative Thinking Pr29ress inCfiess Volume 26 of the ongoing series Editorial board GM Victor Korchnoi GM Helmut Pfleger GM Nigel Short GM Rudolf Teschner 2009 EDITION OLMS m Mark Dvoretsky and Artur Yusupov Secrets of Creative Thinking School of Future Champions 5 Edited and translated by Ken Neat 2009 EDITION OLMS m 4 Books by the same authors: Mark Dvoretsky, ArturYusupov. School of Future Champions Vol. 1 : Secrets of Chess Training ISBN 978-3-283-00515-3 Available Vol. 2: Secrets of Opening Preparation ISBN 978-3-283-00516-0 Available Vol. 3: Secrets of Endgame Technique ISBN 978-3-283-00517-7 Available Vol. 4: Secrets of Positional Play ISBN 978-3-283-00518-4 Available Vol. 5: Secrets of Creative Thinking ISBN 978-3-283-00519-1 Available Mark Dvorelsky. School of Chess Excellence Vol. 1 : Endgame Analysis ISBN 978-3-283-00416-3 Available Vol. 2: Tactical Play ISBN 978-3-283-00417-0 Available Vol. 3: Strategic Play ISBN 978-3-283-00418-7 Available Vol. 4: Opening Developments ISBN 978-3-283-00419-4 Available Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.ddb.de. © 2009 Edition Olms AG Willikonerstr. 1 0 · CH-86 1 8 Oetwil a. S./Zi.irich E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.edition-olms.com All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not. by way of trade or otherwise, be lent. re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Printed in Germany Editor and translator: Ken Neat Typeset: Arno Nickel · Edition Marco, D-1 0551 Berlin Printed by: Druckerei Friedr. Schmucker GmbH, D-49624 Lbningen Cover: Eva Konig, D-22769 Hamburg ISBN 978-3-283-00519-1 5 Contents Preface (Mark Dvoretsky) ............................................................................................. ...... 6 PART I THE CALCULATION OF VARIATIONS The Technique of searching for and taking Decisions (Mark Dvoretsky) ......................... 8 Wandering through the Labyrinth (Mikhail Krasenkow) ................................................... 30 Visual Imagination and the Calculation of Va riations (Beniamin Blumenfeld) ............... 35 PART II INTUITIVE DECISIONS The Development of Chess Intuition (Mark Dvoretsky) ... ................ ............................... .40 In Jazz Style (Sergey Dolmatov) ........................................... .. ... ...... ............................. 59 PART Ill PRACTICAL EXPEDIENCY IN THE TAKING OF DECISIONS Practical Chances in a Chess Game (Beniamin Blumenfeld) ........................................ 78 Does it pay to sharpen the Play? (Vladimir Vulfson) ...................................................... 85 Thoughts about a Book (Mark Dvoretsky) ....................................................................... 98 PART IV ATTACK Missed Brilliancy Prizes (Artur Yusupov) ...................................................................... 115 Long-distance Dispute (Mark Dvoretsky) ........ ...................... ... .......................... ............ 133 Attacks with opposite-sided Castling (Mark Dvoretsky) ..................... .......................... 138 PART V DEFENCE Practical Exercises in the Ta king of difficult Decisions (Igor Belov) ............................ 153 Virtuoso Defence (Mark Dvoretsky) ............................................................................... 165 What lies behind a Mistake (Mark Dvoretsky) .................. ........... ................................. 177 PART VI Analysis of a Game (Mark Dvoretsky) ............ ................................... ................ ......... ... 182 Creative Achievements of Pupils from the School (Artur Yusupov) .............................. 191 Index of Players and Analysts ..................................................................... ................... 204 Index of Openings ........................................................................................................... 206 6 Mark Dvoretsky Preface Y.ou now have in your hands the con­ chess and the ways to overcome them. To cluding, fifth book in the series School of demonstrate the main directions and meth­ Future Champions, based on material from ods of chess improvement. And that is all. the Dvoretsky-Yusupov school for talented Not so much, but also not so little. The young chess players. pupils' results confirm that this was the Our small school functioned for only three correct approach and that on the whole we years (1990-1992). Between ten and fifteen solved our objective successfully. Inciden­ youngsters attended the sessions. Nearly all tally, it was at a session of the school that I of them began studying with us at the age of advised Peter Svidler to seek Lukin's help. 12-15. I can mention with pride that five Our books reflect the same approach. We years later eight of our pupils became have not tried to write textbooks, with a full grandmasters - some of them very strong and exact coverage of a particular topic. and world-renowned. Here are their names: The aim was to provide readers with high­ Alexey Alexandrov, Va sily Emelin, lnna quality material and a variety of ideas for Gaponenko, llakha Kadymova, Sergey Mov­ independent thinking and independent work sesian, Ella Pitem, Peter Svidler and Vadim in the given direction. Moreover, not only Zviagintsev. I am sure that in the near future our own ideas, but also the ideas of other Vladimir Baklan and Peter Kiriakov will also experts (in particular, trainers working to­ become grandmasters. (They have!- Trans­ gether with us at the school). Clearly, such a lator.) Hardly any other junior chess school way of presenting the material demands of can boast of such a high 'pass rate'. the readers a creative (and at times critical) In listing the achievements of the school, I attitude to the text being studied and is not nevertheless clearly realise that the pupils' suitable for those who like ready-made successes have been forged mainly by the prescriptions. To judge by the popularity of players themselves and their permanent our books, such an approach suits very trainers. For example, did we have time to many players. teach much to the future three-times Rus­ Not all the problems discussed in this book sian champion Peter Svidler during those are purely chess problems - they lie some­ three ten-day sessions of the school (the where between chess and psychology. 2nd, 4th and 6th) in which he participated? Thinking at the board and the ways of taking Of course, the main components of Svidler's decisions in a variety of situations - this, in successes are his enormous talent and the brief, is its main content. Many of the aid of his splendid trainer Andrey Lukin. examples offered are very complicated and Yusupov and I saw our role as being to give not straightforward, and demand a deep an impetus to the further development of the penetration into the position, ingenuity, and young players. To help them to understand bold, risky actions. Therefore, compared themselves, their virtues and deficiencies, with the preceding volumes, the present and to outline plans fo r the future. To book is less instructional and more problem­ discuss the problems they encounter in atic and creative. Preface ttJ7 The arrangement of the lectures and arti­ whereas successful observations and con­ cles in the different parts of the book is to clusions relating to chess playing in general some extent arbitrary, since their topics are retain their value for many years. The reader closely interconnected. For example, the will be able to see this for himself by reading discussion of the accurate and deep calcu­ two articles by the Soviet master Beniamin lation of variations in the first part of the Blumenfeld, a subtle analyst of chess psy­ book is merely a prelude, and it will be chology, which were written several decades continued right to the end of the book. ago. Don't be put off by his writing style, The calculation of variations is not every­ which is somewhat archaic by present-day thing - during the course of a game a player standards - it is the author's thoughts that is obliged not only to calculate, but also to are most important, and they are still modern. guess. The problem of developing intuition One of my earlier books School of Chess has hardly been discussed seriously in Excellence 2- Ta ctical Play was devoted to chess literature. I am not a professional problems of attack and defence. But these psychologist and do not claim to have topics are inexhaustible and I hope that the written anything scientific, but I hope that fresh material analysed here in appropriate my practical ideas and recommendations chapters will be useful to you. on this will prove useful to the readers. In the traditional concluding chapter Yusupov Many players make the serious mistake of analyses some games by pupils from the devoting all their free time exclusively to the school. In previous books he mainly fo­ study of opening theory. After all, errors cused on instructive mistakes, but this time made in the later stages of play have as the grandmaster decided to demonstrate much influence on results as poor initial some creative achievements by the juniors. organisation of the game. Specific playing The book
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