Build Up Your Chess 3: Mastery [Paperback]

Build Up Your Chess 3 with Artur Yusupov continues his complete course of chess improvement, arriving at the Mastery level. Yusupov covers a variety of topics  Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, Endgames, Calculating Variations, Openings  using carefully selected positions and advice. The reader is then tested by a series of puzzles.Artur Yusupovs complete course of chess training stretches to nine volumes, guiding the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles.The course is structured in three series with three levels. The Fundamentals level is the easiest one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players.The various topics  Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, Endgames, Calculating Variations, and Openings  are spread evenly across the nine volumes, giving readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books.This book is the first volume at the Mastery level.The Build Up Your Chess series won the prestigious Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world.Artur Yusupov was ranked third in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary World Champions Karpov and Kasparov. In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.