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Devious Chess

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Devious Chess: How to Bend the Rules and Win by Amatzia Avni, published by Batsford.

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Description

Master chess psychologist Amatzia Avni outlines a new approach to playing chess – be tricksy about your game, bend the rules where possible and always come out on top! Players of all abilities are urged, step-by-step, to unlearn everything they’ve learned so far and adopt a fearless attitude to the game. Every tip for bending the rules is included here with comprehensive illustrated games.

Includes:

  • The Nature of Tricky Chess: Virgin land • Raising the tension to boiling point • Coffeehouse chess • Not so elementary, my dear Watson • Peculiar moves
  • Principled Issues of ‘Tricky Chess’: Twists and turns • The trap vs blunder dilemma • Methods of conducting ‘tricky chess’
  • Illustrative Games
  • Assesment and Implementation: Evaluation of tricksy chess • Transforming into a ‘tricky chess’ player
  • Softback, 144 pages.

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