Secrets of Positional Sacrifice

En herlig innholdsrik bok som viser temaet posisjonelle ofre i sjakk gjennom pedagogisk godt kommenterte partier. Hvert av de fem hovedkapitlene har i tillegg et antall treningsoppgaver til leseren.

Forlagets egen omtale:

• 64 deeply annotated instructive games

• 5 areas of positional sacrifice

• Carefully selected exercises with solutions

“Secrets of Positional Sacrifice” is the second book, created within the premises of the Nestor­ovi c family chess workshop. I would like to mention that the whole family contributed to this book. We are also extremely thankful to our friends, who, thanks to their previous experience, have introduced us to the process of creating chess books, with their invaluable advice and ideas.

Considering the abundance of material regarding this topic that was gathered, we decided to make this book only the first, lower level of the “Positional sacrifice” edition. My father and I worked hard to make sure that the new book will be as interesting as the first one, but also more adapted to the wider audience.

Although the book mostly covers the more recent games, we could not help but include the beautiful creations of “old masters”, that we consider classical today. When it comes to di­viding the book into chapters, there were multiple, interesting possibilities, but we opted for sectioning it based on a subject of sacrifice. Hence, there are five chapters within the book: positional pawn sacrifice, exchange sacrifice, piece sacrifice, queen sacrifice and finally, the unavoidable section dedicated to the classics.

There are a lot of interesting ideas presented in the book, applied by world class players, as well as by the less known ones. We kept the analysis of their games simple and easy to follow, and we made sure to include plenty of diagrams and explanations within the text.

Also, the addition to the book are exercises, given at the end of each chapter, which are meant to test the reader’s newly acquired knowledge. Exercises are mainly based on the correct assessment of asymmetric positions, and of course on accurate calculation.

We hope you will enjoy the book, at least as much as my father and I enjoyed writing it, and we have no doubt that our book will improve your chess knowledge and the feeling for positional sacrifice.

GM Nikola Nestorovic

Innholdet i boka:

• THE POSITIONAL PAWN SACRIFICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
• Magnus Carlsen 2853 – Wesley So 2779. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
• Ruslan Ponomariov 2704 – Evgeny Bareev 2675. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
• Anish Giri 2764 – Nils Grandelius 2663. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
• Georg Kilgus 2461 – Bence Korpa 2542. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
• Sanan Sjugirov 2673 – Artur Jussupow 2581. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
• Alexei Shirov 2700 – Peter Svidler 2660. . . . . .
• Yu Yangyi 2709 – Wei Yi 2732. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
• Kidambi Sundarradjan 2433 – Pentala Harikrishna 2354. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
• Levon Aronian 2805 – Ivan Ivanišević 2613. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
• Jorden van Foreest 2671 – Nils Grandelius 2663. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
• Hans Tikkanen 2566 – Péter Lékó 2723. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
• Alexey Dreev 2695 – Curt Hansen 2610. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
• Kidambi Sundararajan 2487 – Gadir Guseinov 2659. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
• Veselin Topalov 2816 – Hikaru Nakamura 2814. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
• Baadur Jobava 2651 – Wang Hao 2610. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
• EXAMPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

• SOLUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

• THE POSITIONAL EXCHANGE SACRIFICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

• Dejan Nestorović 2417 – Boško Abramović 2499. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
• Vladimir Epishin 2585 – Mladen Palac 2560. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
• Sergey Karjakin 2778 – Fabiano Caruana 2773. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .94
• Evgeniy Najer 2666 – Ehsan Ghaem Maghami 2603. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
• Boban Bogosavljević 2520 – Dejan Nestorović 2404. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
• Matthias Röder 2420 – Georgy Timoshenko 2568. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
• Eltaj Safarli 2488 – Arthur Pijpers 2000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
• Teddy Coleman 2266 – Lubomir Ftáčnik 2573 . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
• Varuzhan Akobian 2661 – Andrey Baryshpolets 2591. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
• Konstantin Sakaev 2634 – Dmitry Kokarev 2551. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
• Rainer Buhmann 2567 – Trajče Nedev 2528. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
• David Shengelia 2543 – Richárd Rapport 2759. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
• Nikita Vitiugov 2608 – Vitaly Tseshkovsky 2513. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
• Hou Yifan 2652 – Ding Liren 2773. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
• Garry Kasparov 2805 – Alexei Shirov 2740. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
• EXAMPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

• SOLUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

• THE POSITIONAL PIECE SACRIFICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

• Sergei Lobanov 2522 – Vladimir Fedoseev 2676. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
• Hikaru Nakamura 2787 – Mariya Muzychuk 2554. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
• Ruslan Pogorelov 2411 – Tigran Gharamian 2557. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
• Fabiano Caruana 2736 – Anish Giri 2714. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
• Alexander Grischuk 2710 – Alexei Shirov 2720 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
• Sandipan Chanda 2579 – Vassily Ivanchuk 2726. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
• Maxim Matlakov 2698 – Vladimir Fedoseev 2674. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
• Yasser Seirawan 2595 – Jonathan Tisdall 2480. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181
• Dragan Kosić 2501 – Nikola Nestorović 2405. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186
• Mateusz Bartel 2609 – Viorel Iordăchescu 2584. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
• EXAMPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

• SOLUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• THE POSITIONAL QUEEN SACRIFICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

• Miloš Perunović 2570 – Nikola Sedlak 2568. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
• Viktor Haring 2297 – Jan Vykouk 2440. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204
• Ruslan Ponomariov 2705 – Wang Hao 2643. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209
• Ruben Felgaer 2618 – Ilia Smirin 2652. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214
• Andrey Esipenko 2677 – Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2784. . . . . . . . . . . 219
• Dmitry Bocharov 2611 – Evgeny Tomashevsky 2724. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224
• Anton Filippov 2644 – Husein Aziz Nezad 2394. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
• Daniil Dubov 2702 – Andrey Esipenko 2686. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
• Patrice Etchegaray 2350 – Aleksander Delchev 2629 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
• Zdenko Kožul 2585 – Evgenij Miroshnichenko 2500. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
• Ni Hua 2670 – Alexander Moiseenko 2726. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .245
• Dejan Nestorović – Sreten Đukanović. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .252
• Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson 2317 – Alexander Khasin 2511 . .. . . . . . . . . . . .256
• Murali Karthikeyan 2495 – Sarkar Rajdeep 2145. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261
• Evgeny Bareev 2721 – Vassily Ivanchuk 2710. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .266
• EXAMPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

• SOLUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

• EVERGREEN . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

• Tigran V. Petrosian – Boris Spassky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .275
• Isaak Boleslavsky – Vladimir Savon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .280
• Andor Lilienthal – Viacheslav Ragozin. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284
• Ljubomir Ljubojević – Albin Planinec. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289
• Branko Damljanović 2555 – Dragoljub Velimirović 2535. . . . . . . . . 293
• Ljubomir Ljubojević 2600 – Lajos Portisch 2630. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298
• Lubomir Kavalek 2540 – Wolfgang Uhlmann 2555. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
• Mikhail Botvinnik – Bent Larsen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
• Boris Spassky 2660 – Robert J. Fischer 2785 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
• EXAMPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
• SOLUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321