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  • Pawn storm, a Chess Primer

    A devastating, but difficult Attack

    by Rodolfo Pardi ...
    Series Book 18 - Chess Manuals
    A pawn storm is a chess strategy in which several pawns are moved in rapid succession towards the opponent’s defences. A pawn storm usually involves adjacent pawns on any one side of the board (kingside or queenside). Literature is scarce or not existent, only a Dvd by Daniel King covers this matter.A reckless attack will have no chance of success, therefore guidelines in attack and defence will ... Read more

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  • ECP2. Encyclopedia of Chess Patterns part 2: Tactics

    Forks, Lined up Pieces, defensive Patterns

    by Rodolfo Pardi ...
    This ebook is a combination of patterns originally contained in three other books of mine: Forks, Lined up pieces, Defensive patterns. The information contained in my former books was limited by the size of the files, which could not be exceeded to maintain the price to 1 $. Here, with a small increase of price, there's no limit to the content, with a lot of diagrams (150 overall), to help ... Read more

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  • A selection of additional Chess Patterns

    smothered Mate, illusory Pin, attack to the castled King

    by Rodolfo Pardi ...
    Series series Chess Manuals
    This booklet is about 3 families of patterns: #10 (Smothered Mate) and #52 (Illusory pin) of my book "Fundamental Chess Patterns", and the attack to the castled King. Covering many variants.The main manual did just show 50 patterns, the aim was to fix them in your memory, while here each pattern is shown in different situations, to help the process of identification. So it will take longer to go ... Read more

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  • Knight Jumps training

    Chess Exercises, no Chessboard needed

    by Rodolfo Pardi ...
    Series Book 4 - Chess Manuals
    Practice your Visualization Skills ... It is the ability to see "in your head" what your future chess position might look like.Chess board visualization training is necessary in order to not miss tactics, see more combinations and to become a better overall chess player. Chess board visualization does not come naturally to all chess players. Chess visualization is something that must be trained, ... Read more

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  • Building your own Chess Opening Repertoire, an Approach

    Two easy openings for White and two for Black

    by Rodolfo Pardi ...
    Series Book 21 - Chess Manuals
    While Chess education should start from the study of endgames (how could you manage 32 pieces when you have doubts with three?) coming well out of the opening should give you an advantage.Having problems in remembering anything after going through the monograph of your preferred opening?You've been told that you should not learn an opening by heart? Masters do, able to play automatically ten to ... Read more

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  • Chess Visualization Training for innocent Souls

    A Manual that will increase your Skill

    by Rodolfo Pardi ...
    Series series Chess Manuals
    Chess Visualization for the innocent Soulsnot faint hearted, willing to explore the unknownYasser Seirawan in his introduction to "Endings" states that even the most determined and enthusiastic players can be driven nearly to tears with the tedium of trying to study endings.But that's nothing compared to how boring a book about visualization can be, like this one.If you are new to my books, better ... Read more

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  • FCP: 50 Fundamental Chess Patterns

    for novice and club players

    by Rodolfo Pardi, Evelyne Nicod ...
    Series Book 1 - Chess Manuals
    There's no limit to what's available to a Chess student today, you can find more than 500 Gbytes of books, in PDF or even Chessbase format, programs, hundreds of instruction movies, a forest in which the Chess student can go astray. A large choice of endgame books is available, each proposing some hundreds of sequences, and when you have finished reading them, may be you will recall three or four ... Read more

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  • Chess Course for absolute adult and senior Beginners

    and Advice to their Coaches

    by Rodolfo Pardi ...
    Series Book 24 - Chess Manuals
    This ebook is based on the course held during the winter of 2014-15 at UTE Milan, Italy. The twelve students were seniors aged from 60 to 75 with no previous knowledge of the game of chess. Some of them knew how to play draughts, but this made the task more difficult as the technique for playing draughts cannot be applied to that of chess. The target was to become acquainted with basic ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of Chess Patterns part 1

    101 Patterns, 600 Pages, 300 Diagrams, Links to 300 Games

    by Rodolfo Pardi, Evelyne Nicod ...
    Series Book 2 - Chess Manuals
    I suggest you look inside:to check that you will understandto see 17 out of the 101 patternsto see figurines instead of piece initialsto appreciate the neat diagramsto link to sample gamesThis ebook is a combination of "Fundamental Chess Patterns 1-50 and 51-100", a directory of 101 patterns to be used as a reference, AND the complete analysis of the following patterns: Critical squares , Illusory ... Read more

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  • Can any practice of Meditation increase your Chess Rating?

    Your Bet?

    by Rodolfo Pardi ...
    Series Book 27 - Chess Manuals
    Hallo, are you wondering whether meditation might help you play better and increase your rating? so did I.I have written 15 technical chess books, some only in English, some only in italian, sometimes bestsellers in the cathegory.This book is different, no diagrams, no algebraic notation, it's aimed only to the former buyers of some book of mine. I's based as usual on my experience of teacher, ... Read more

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  • Of fatal Blunders and Chess Traps. How to avoid them

    It happens to Masters as well, unbelievable!

    by Rodolfo Pardi ...
    Series Book 26 - Chess Manuals
    Do you remember your last blunder? No? You never blunder? Do not buy this book.Are you prone to blunders? Frequently? This book explains what to do to avoid them.Do you lose your game after a few moves due to a trap you did not know or remember?This book might help you if you follow the required discipline.Not a long list of traps, even if I have a file containing more than ten thousand related ... Read more

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  • Learn how to Unpin: essential Knowledge

    Nobody will tell you these Techniques

    by Rodolfo Pardi ...
    Series Book 22 - Chess Manuals
    A pin is an unpleasant situation, where you could lose material or ruin your pawn structure. And your opponent blocks two of your valuable pieces with one of his.You will find a dozen examples to teach you how to unpin, do not reinvent the wheel over the board.If you read other books of mine you will recognize some of the patterns, but here they are arranged in a systematic way.But here you have ... Read more

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