Beyond the Basics

Build Up Your Chess 2 with Artur Yusupov continues his complete course of chess improvement, setting off on the road to mastery. 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.

Renowned chess teacher and grandmaster Artur Yusupov continues his complete course of chess improvement. Volume 1, The Fundamentals, showed club chess players the basic ideas they should know. Now Volume 2, Beyond the Basics, sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.