Blockade: New Perspectives
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. fep clipped.
Few concepts have shaped competitive chess as profoundly as the blockade, and no one understood it better than Aron Nimzowitsch — the iconoclastic Latvian-born grandmaster whose revolutionary ideas permanently altered how the game is played. Blockade: New Perspectives presents Nimzowitsch's seminal treatise on the art of immobilising an opponent's pawns and pieces, arguing with clinical precision that restricting an enemy's mobility is as decisive a weapon as any direct attack. Translated by Dr. Joseph Platz, USCF Master Emeritus, this 1980 Chess Enterprises edition makes one of chess theory's cornerstone texts newly accessible to English-speaking players of every level. Nimzowitsch's prose is characteristically bold and didactic, illustrating his principles through meticulously annotated games and positions that remain strikingly relevant to modern competitive play. His theories — once dismissed as eccentric — now form the bedrock of hypermodern chess strategy, influencing generations of grandmasters from Réti to Fischer. Whether you are a club player seeking to sharpen your positional understanding or a serious student of chess history, this volume poses a challenge that is impossible to ignore: can you master the art of the blockade before your opponent masters it against you?
Author: Aron Nimzowitsch
Format: Paperback
Published: 1980, Chess Enterprises, Inc.
Genre: Sport & fitness
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. fep clipped.
Few concepts have shaped competitive chess as profoundly as the blockade, and no one understood it better than Aron Nimzowitsch — the iconoclastic Latvian-born grandmaster whose revolutionary ideas permanently altered how the game is played. Blockade: New Perspectives presents Nimzowitsch's seminal treatise on the art of immobilising an opponent's pawns and pieces, arguing with clinical precision that restricting an enemy's mobility is as decisive a weapon as any direct attack. Translated by Dr. Joseph Platz, USCF Master Emeritus, this 1980 Chess Enterprises edition makes one of chess theory's cornerstone texts newly accessible to English-speaking players of every level. Nimzowitsch's prose is characteristically bold and didactic, illustrating his principles through meticulously annotated games and positions that remain strikingly relevant to modern competitive play. His theories — once dismissed as eccentric — now form the bedrock of hypermodern chess strategy, influencing generations of grandmasters from Réti to Fischer. Whether you are a club player seeking to sharpen your positional understanding or a serious student of chess history, this volume poses a challenge that is impossible to ignore: can you master the art of the blockade before your opponent masters it against you?