GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF OPENING PLAY: ARTUR YUSUPOV AGAINST STONEWALL
Of the book "Opening Preparation" (Mark Dvoretsky and Artur Yusupov, BT Batsford Ltd. London. 1994) I selected the chapter "General Principles of Opening Play" by Artur Yusupov. It's a wonderful book that an amateur chess player should to read. In the preface to the book, Mark Dvoretsky say: "Whe embarking on any serious project, you always try to draw up a good, precise plan of it. And if the - blueprint- is sound, things usually proceed successfully". It's a teaching for the live! Continue Dvorestky, further on. " We clearly understood that our task was not simply to equip our students with specific chess knowledge; in two ten-day sessions per year, little can be done in that respect, while in any case the main point of chess training lies elsewhere. Far more important aims are:
a) to acquaint the students with general ideas, methods and preceptsfor conducting the struggle for these are of the universal significance
b) to impart rational methods of studying chess, procedures both for appropiating overall ideas and for acquiring essential concrete information
c) to analyse the defects in the students' play and help to eradicate them"
For the other hand, Artur Yusupov say: " Modern open strucutres are firmly linked to a middlegame plan of action (and sometimes you even have to take the eventual andgame strcuture into account!). ...Let us now look a little more closely at the first of the opening maxims (fast mobilisation of the forces). Some simple rules may be called to mind:
1) Don't move the same piece twice (without serious justification).
2) Don't waste time on prophylactic moves with the rook's pawns; developing the pieces fasteris more important.
3) Don't bring the queen out too early; choosing the right place for it is a crucial task, since the nature of the subsequent struggle is in many ways dependent on where the queen is placed.
4) Don´t be rushed into a premature, unprepared attack.
5) Don't go in for pawn hunting especially in open positions where a lead in development makes an immense defference. Rememberthat a tempo in the opening is sometimes more important than a pawn"Continue Yusupov further on: "The next example will certainly delight adherents of the Dutch Defence. It is a game I played against Grandmaster Beliavsky, in wich the plans of both sides were dictated by the complex pawn structure that is so characteristic of this opening.
a) to acquaint the students with general ideas, methods and preceptsfor conducting the struggle for these are of the universal significance
b) to impart rational methods of studying chess, procedures both for appropiating overall ideas and for acquiring essential concrete information
c) to analyse the defects in the students' play and help to eradicate them"
For the other hand, Artur Yusupov say: " Modern open strucutres are firmly linked to a middlegame plan of action (and sometimes you even have to take the eventual andgame strcuture into account!). ...Let us now look a little more closely at the first of the opening maxims (fast mobilisation of the forces). Some simple rules may be called to mind:
1) Don't move the same piece twice (without serious justification).
2) Don't waste time on prophylactic moves with the rook's pawns; developing the pieces fasteris more important.
3) Don't bring the queen out too early; choosing the right place for it is a crucial task, since the nature of the subsequent struggle is in many ways dependent on where the queen is placed.
4) Don´t be rushed into a premature, unprepared attack.
5) Don't go in for pawn hunting especially in open positions where a lead in development makes an immense defference. Rememberthat a tempo in the opening is sometimes more important than a pawn"Continue Yusupov further on: "The next example will certainly delight adherents of the Dutch Defence. It is a game I played against Grandmaster Beliavsky, in wich the plans of both sides were dictated by the complex pawn structure that is so characteristic of this opening.
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